Re: Question about Python 2 (sub-)package removal in Fedora

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On Thu, Mar 07, 2019 at 09:15:23AM +0100, Miro Hrončok wrote:
> On 07. 03. 19 9:11, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> >
> >Related to:
> >https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Mass_Python_2_Package_Removal
> >
> >I have some packages which build python 2 subpackages, but they are
> >not "python packages" as such.  One example is nbdkit:
> >
> >   https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=1225638
> >
> >This package isn't listed in
> >https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Mass_Python_2_Package_Removal/List
> >I don't know how that list was constructed, whether this was missed by
> >accident, or design.
> 
> Only Python 2 modules (i.e. stuff that installs into
> /usr/lib(64)?/python2.7) were detected. Yours seem to be like some
> sort of plugins.

Another one would be python2-libguestfs which does install files in
/usr/lib64/python2.7 and is present in the list, but wasn't removed by
anyone nor was a bug filed against it AFAICS.  Anyway I can deal with
this one too.

> >Anyway my question is should I remove these subpackages myself?  Now?
> >And in what releases of Fedora (ie. 31 only?  30 and 31?)
> 
> If they are not depended upon, please remove them.
> 
> Since the beta freeze for Fedora 30 already happened and I don't
> think this would unblock plenty other packages, I suggest to do it
> in Fedora 31 only.

OK, it'll be good to finally get rid of Python 2.

Rich.

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