On 12/05/2019 10:13 PM, Simon Lees wrote:
As someone who works alongside people in the team responsible for maintaining python inside SLE / openSUSE I can almost certainly say this won't happen. SUSE does not have the main power to maintain python security without an upstream and we are not interested in keeping software that we can't provide security updates for inside openSUSE so its and anything using it is scheduled to be dropped on the day support ends.
Without an upstream, nothing changes, you just keep packaging the last release. No different than how Gtk+2 is packaged -- which hasn't had an upstream for years -- but there is still a lot of Gtk+2 code in many apps -- as there will be plenty of non-python3 compatible code if python2 was dropped. I don't see any manpower it would require at all. There will be no other changes to the package. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.