Re: [PATCH 4.19 425/425] scripts: switch explicitly to Python 3

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On Fri, May 21, 2021 at 06:36:18AM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Thu, May 20, 2021 at 10:36:26PM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > Hi!
> > 
> > > From: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > 
> > > commit 51839e29cb5954470ea4db7236ef8c3d77a6e0bb upstream.
> > > 
> > > Some distributions are about to switch to Python 3 support only.
> > > This means that /usr/bin/python, which is Python 2, is not available
> > > anymore. Hence, switch scripts to use Python 3 explicitly.
> > 
> > I'd say this is unsuitable for -stable.
> > 
> > Old distributions may not have python3 installed, and we should not
> > change this dependency in the middle of the series.
> 
> What distro that was released in 2017 (the year 4.14.0 was released) did
> not have python3 on it?

oops, I meant 2018, when 4.19.0 was out, wrong tree...




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