Re: [gentoo-dev] unsanctioned python 2.7 crusade

[Joshua Kinard <kumba@gentoo.org>]

On 1/12/2020 17:32, Andreas Sturmlechner wrote:
> On Sonntag, 12. Januar 2020 23:07:24 CET Joshua Kinard wrote:
>> It might be worthwhile to treat the removal of Python-2.7 from the tree in
>> the same manner as an EAPI deprecation and removal, given how ingrained it
>> is due to its longevity.  That will minimize the whiplash-effect of emerge
>> complaining about slot conflicts and dependency conflicts.  Like I just ran
>> into w/ setuptools-45.0.0.0's release.
> 
> So, no packaging of >=setuptools-45.0.0 until the end of 2020? Do you want to 
> freeze all python libs that upstreams are dropping py27 support from?
> 

Not saying not to package it.  Right now, the issue seems to be it causes
dependency conflicts in emerge's depgraph parsing when PYTHON_TARGETS
includes python2_7 support.  Remove that and stick with python3_* only, then
other packages that need python2_7 will whine.

Did setuptools-45.0.0 remove all python2 support?  I looked at the commit
log, and it's only the title that any meaningful hint that it may have,
"dev-python/setuptools: Bump to 45.0.0 (py3 only)".  If it did, then that
change is the right change, but anyone with a userland that has a mix of
python2 and python3 is going to have difficulty getting that update to merge
in, so I really can't go higher than setuptools-44.0.0 for the time being.

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Joshua Kinard
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