On Fri 2021-05-21 06:37:00, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > 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... In anything yocto-based, for example, you explicitely select which packages you want. And changing dependencies in middle of stable release is surprising and against our documentation. Best regards, Pavel -- http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek
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