On Wed, Jun 23, 2021 at 8:56 PM Neal Gompa <ngompa13@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > EPEL already advises people to use Python 3 whenever possible for EL7. > For EL8, Python 2 is strongly discouraged. And EL9 isn't even going to > ship Python 2. Sadly, their migrations to python3 are not complete and will probably never approach completion. Between RHEL 8 and EPEL 7, there are approximately 1300 python2 packages and approximately 500 python3 packages. Resolving the dependency conflicts between packages named "python3-" and packages named "python36-" complicate backporting: I took a shot at backporting the current python3 based ansible from Fedora 34 to RHEL 7 today, and it became very awkward, very quickly. (pytest dependencies were not my friend.) > At this point, breaking Python 2 in Fedora is really not that big of a deal. It's not a *big* deal. I suggest that it comes at a cost for EPEL backports, especially for RHEL 7. _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
