On Thu, 2020-01-09 at 16:10 +0100, Adam Majer wrote:
On 1/9/20 3:13 PM, Dominique Leuenberger / DimStar wrote:
Just a sample: I am just busy switching the fail2ban package to use py3. Upstream had support for it for years - yet our package was never switched.
I agree with this. What I don't agree with is removing the *interpreter* that we (SUSE) still have to maintain anyway. Not keeping the *interpreter* in Factory removes the QA feedback from our TW users and is unnecessary. Just don't accept anything new that BR: python.
And if in the future there is something wrong found with python2, it could then be easily removed because nothing depends on it anymore.
You expect a lot of feedback from an interpreter that is part of the TW repo but nothing depends on? You seem to imply that many users will still install it and offer you (SUSE) feedback about regressions. Will be damn hard to support that with numbers. In any case - the interpreter will obviously be the last thing to be removed from repo. Let's first make sure that we can finally minimize the footprint of stuff depending on python2 - it's not as if the 'removal of py2 in Jan 2020' had only been announced this year. Cheers, Dominique