[arch-dev-public] Dropping python2 as a development environment

Levente Polyak anthraxx at archlinux.org
Mon Nov 29 20:06:33 UTC 2021


On 11/29/21 14:30, Jelle van der Waa via arch-dev-public wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On 14/11/2021 19:40, Jelle van der Waa wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I would like to propose that we start deprecating python2 and only 
>> allowing to exists for:
>>
>> * Make dependencies where required (js68, grafana-zabbix, etc.)
>> * Runtime dependencies such as (john, displayical, etc.)
>>
>> This would basically imply that we drop python2-pip and 
>> python2-virtualenv from our repositories and with them tons of python2 
>> modules.
> 
> It's been two weeks without any objections, I'll drop 
> python2-virtualenv/python2-pip today.
> 
> Greetings,
> 
> Jelle van der Waa

Just so you have a positive feedback instead of just no objection:

GO for it! :D

Thank you for tackling this. I've also dropped a few python2 depending 
tools that are dead.

cheers,
Levente
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