From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 03E12138A1F for ; Sun, 20 Apr 2014 17:14:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8B5BDE09C0; Sun, 20 Apr 2014 17:14:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C19A4E0888; Sun, 20 Apr 2014 15:43:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pomiot.lan (77-255-22-215.adsl.inetia.pl [77.255.22.215]) (using SSLv3 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: mgorny) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 3DF7833FE2F; Sun, 20 Apr 2014 15:43:23 +0000 (UTC) Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2014 17:43:13 +0200 From: =?ISO-8859-2?B?TWljaGGzIEfzcm55?= To: Cc: Subject: [gentoo-dev-announce] Python 2.6 to be masked on 2014-04-28 Message-ID: <20140420174313.63ec49f1@pomiot.lan> Reply-To: Organization: Gentoo X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.9.3 (GTK+ 2.24.23; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo development announcement list X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev-announce@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha512; boundary="Sig_/JGzP3zjrqKQ4uxQ1my6IY6l"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: d8c5c426-4d62-4df2-94d5-7352bd6171a9 X-Archives-Hash: 6ea1671a27e07eddedb04f4c0b6ca17b --Sig_/JGzP3zjrqKQ4uxQ1my6IY6l Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Developers and users, On behalf of Python team, I would like to announce that we are planning on starting the process of removing Python 2.6. The process will start with masking the python2_6 target USE flags and relevant packages. If nobody strongly disagrees with this, we will commit the masks one week from now, on 2014-04-28. Afterwards, Python 2.7 (with experimental support for PyPy and Jython 2.7) will be the only version of Python 2 supported in Gentoo. Python 2.7 is mostly backwards compatible with 2.6 and all of the packages in Gentoo supporting Python 2.6 support 2.7 as well. Therefore, switching to 2.7 should be painless to most of our users. If you have any doubts about this change, please do not hesitate to reply to this mail, to the gentoo-dev@ mailing list. In case you have more general migration problems, you can contact us through the gentoo-python mailing list [1] or #gentoo-python IRC channel on Freenode [2]. Rationale: The last version of Python 2.6 was released on 2013-10-29 and was announced as the last official release [3]. Therefore, Python 2.6 is no longer maintained upstream and security fixes are no longer provided. Moreover, a growing number of Python projects are removing support for Python 2.6. If their reverse dependencies are still installed with Python 2.6 support, this prevents the package manager from upgrading them and leaves users with outdated, potentially vulnerable versions. [1]:http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/lists.xml [2]:http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/irc.xml [3]:https://www.python.org/download/releases/2.6.9/ --=20 Best regards, Micha=B3 G=F3rny --Sig_/JGzP3zjrqKQ4uxQ1my6IY6l Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) iQJ8BAEBCgBmBQJTU+sUXxSAAAAAAC4AKGlzc3Vlci1mcHJAbm90YXRpb25zLm9w ZW5wZ3AuZmlmdGhob3JzZW1hbi5uZXQ2REJCMDdDQzRGMERBRDA2RUEwQUZFNDFC MDdBMUFFQUVGQjQ0NjRFAAoJELB6GurvtEZOL6cP/2GwBAj6x3DBrLOlpAuSA2Pm 6eB6fqeYDHa6xXAkHKSZe0QJtZQhW9bNuQtax+yjXlOc5DcStqc7TOB+htf+kU0V Fmr/2lXA9DJ+AkO2B0R+AI8wS97lOcAvekrE4bfvW7DxOMYmabrevHK4aaRaCt8O bXzIaLUnEhZwP6L8lKBqCrN9/w1gmYnCKGnJBsjO5bIBOLcUbPE/ua1yFPEXRwJC p6mMtSAME2ydcHZRjKJflGaKMTJ0PeXay+oMBRJOzFA8oUPqtDYeO425Q/0W1MbF eeXs2NvikdBSoXplUyBKLYvouaht9jxKvXyDCf7Y1PPE3CSvwOTgJeU/O1gOu91q vrwAo5duhmBJB9XlPeEo69zSsVWVolJA5uvesRp8UVAAVvTx6tgHCZM9bQtkSrb1 NurdulPi+nYkweATOB2kRrNJXEk9kfW0SyeefhCjp4E9SacdkTeDUBGXOuZ9Oncl rlWrhWsTT1yOFpEbO+NuR7rgo46e9/tk2r6tHbzlXX7lRURsufu+cNd0bcRxo28V Pdjswk0fU+d09Ld6Mf9lc/8Hn9WenMCiuO9QuvmT2YHedVZe+keO9f4r3ZmsmR6r db5xKyLMXoMQQW81iQ65JrBQdx6rPHT2ntzFmOJ54V7QgillNpl7vLd+VwUuljjg Q1Cg4u5RMDRvbPgi+nXN =hzOR -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/JGzP3zjrqKQ4uxQ1my6IY6l--