Fedora 33 Self-Contained Change proposal: retire python26

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https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/RetirePython26

== Summary ==
The {{package|python26}} package will be retired without replacement
from [[Releases/33|Fedora 33]]. Python 2.6 has been End of Life since
October 2013 and was kept around only to test software targeting
RHEL/EPEL 6. The removal is aligned with EPEL 6 EOL.

== Owner ==
* Name: [[User:Churchyard|Miro Hrončok]]
* Email: mhroncok@xxxxxxxxxx


== Detailed Description ==
The {{package|python26}} package with the Python interpreter in
version 2.6 is kept in Fedora only to make it possible for Fedora
users to test their software against the Python version shipped in
RHEL 6.

[[EPEL|The EPEL 6 End of Life is planned for 2020-11]]. This roughly
corresponds with the
[https://fedorapeople.org/groups/schedule/f-33/f-33-key-tasks.html
Fedora 33 release date]. Hence, we decided to retire (completely
remove) {{package|python26}} from Fedora 33, before it gets released.

== Benefit to Fedora ==
The maintenance of Python 2.6 was getting harder and harder every
year. The support for Python 2.6 has disappeared from virtualenv, tox.
{{package|python26}} cannot be built against the new OpenSSL versions,
etc.

There is no direct benefit here, except that we don't want to maintain
it anymore and we don't think it's a good idea either.

Consider this change proposal a louder orphaning, except that we will
continue to maintain the package in older released and supported
Fedoras (31 and 32). If you wish to continue maintaining Python 2.6 in
Fedora, please [[SIGs/Python|speak to us]] first.

== Scope ==
* Proposal owners: Retire {{package|python26}}. Obsolete it from
{{package|fedora-obsolete-packages}} if it causes troubles on
upgrades. Make sure no Fedora package depends on it in any way (incl.
weak dependencies).

* Other developers: N/A (not a System Wide Change)
* Release engineering: N/A (not a System Wide Change)
* Policies and guidelines: N/A (not a System Wide Change)
* Trademark approval: N/A (not needed for this Change)


== Upgrade/compatibility impact ==
The package will no longer be available from the repositories, but it
may remain on existing installations. If it causes troubles on
upgrade, it needs to be obsoleted.

== How To Test ==
N/A (not a System Wide Change)

== User Experience ==
No more Python 2.6 to test user software on.

== Dependencies ==
N/A (not a System Wide Change)

== Contingency Plan ==
* Contingency mechanism: (What to do?  Who will do it?) N/A (not a
System Wide Change)
* Contingency deadline: N/A (not a System Wide Change)
* Blocks release? N/A (not a System Wide Change)

== Documentation ==
N/A


-- 
Ben Cotton
He / Him / His
Fedora Program Manager
Red Hat
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