On Tue, Jul 23, 2024 at 10:30 PM Kevin Kofler via devel <devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote: > > #3244 Change: Retire Python 2.7 > > https://pagure.io/fesco/issue/3244 > > APPROVED (+8, 0, 0) > > This is going to break the build of a whole bunch of compatibility packages, > which will in turn break a lot of software in Fedora. > > Do you expect packages to do what Qt5WebEngine did for EPEL and bundle their > own copy of Python 2 to be used at build time? This just does not make any > sense whatsoever. > > For Qt5WebEngine, there is now a patch from Arch Linux to make it build with > Python 3 that we could apply, but both the Qt 4 and 5 QtWebKit require > Python 2 to build. As do several other packages, I am pretty sure. I believe qt5-qtwebkit uses python3 for builds (I believe the qt4 variant does use python2, but a quick repoquery indicates no fedora package depends on qtwebkit-devel, although I admit the query may have been wrong, and I think it goes without question that there will be some independent projects that are still on qt4 and may use qtwebkit). Four (or so) years ago about 30 packages needed a FESCo exception for python2. It may be worth reviewing that list to insure the packages have been updated (as I recall, many were close to being updated upstream, but the Fedora and upstream release schedules required a formal exception). -- _______________________________________________ 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, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
