Re: [gentoo-dev] unsanctioned python 2.7 crusade

[David Seifert <soap@gentoo.org>]

On Sun, 2020-01-12 at 17:43 -0500, Joshua Kinard wrote:
> 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.
> 

https://setuptools.readthedocs.io/en/latest/history.html#v45-0-0