[oi-dev] The end of python-27

[Peter Tribble]

On Thu, Mar 24, 2022 at 3:51 PM Gary Mills <gary_mills at fastmail.fm> wrote:

> As some of you may know, Nona and I have been working through a list
> of packages that depend on python-27 .  The list was originally
> published by Aurlien Larcher, with a view to the removal of python-27
> from OI.
>
> With the integration of PR #7942, there are only two remaining
> packages:
>
>     developer/gnome/gnome-doc-utils
>     image/editor/gimp
>
> In both of these cases, python-2 is deeply embedded in the product,
> and the upstream developers have not completed the conversion to
> python-3 .  Unless the conversion happens very soon, we have little
> choice but to obsolete these two packages, and revive them later when
> the conversion is ready.  If anyone has a better alternative, please
> let us know.
>

For gimp, can you not simply build with --disable-python?

In Tribblix, I've largely eliminated python2. But there are still one or
two things
that need it (gnome-doc-utils being one, older Node.JS which will
eventually go
away, but also Pale Moon requires it for build). So I'm actually keeping a
python2.7
package, but it only exists to meet a handful of build dependencies so
doesn't
get installed in the normal course of events, and I'm expecting to keep it
that
way for a while.

-- 
-Peter Tribble
http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/
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