Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] profiles/package.deprecated: deprecate python:2.7

[Sergei Trofimovich]

On Sat, 20 Jun 2020 16:29:53 +0100
Sergei Trofimovich <slyfox@g.o> wrote:

> On Sat, 20 Jun 2020 16:05:38 +0200
> Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o> wrote:
>
> > On Sat, 2020-06-20 at 14:57 +0100, Sergei Trofimovich wrote:
> > > Give maintainers the chance to act and flag packages that pull in python:2.7.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Sergei Trofimovich <slyfox@g.o>
> > > ---
> > >  profiles/package.deprecated | 4 ++++
> > >  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/profiles/package.deprecated b/profiles/package.deprecated
> > > index a756e845f47..bb661571962 100644
> > > --- a/profiles/package.deprecated
> > > +++ b/profiles/package.deprecated
> > > @@ -17,6 +17,10 @@
> > >
> > >  #--- END OF EXAMPLES ---
> > >
> > > +# Sergei Trofimovich <slyfox@g.o> (2020-06-20)
> > > +# Deprecated. Consider poring to python 3 and drop support for python2.
> > > +dev-lang/python:2.7
> > > +
> > >  # Sergei Trofimovich <slyfox@g.o> (2020-02-22)
> > >  # virtual/libstdc++ has only one sys-libs/libstdc++-v3 provider.
> > >  # Use that instead. Or even better use none of them. It's a
> >
>
> > It will trigger the same for packages that support *only*
> > Python 2.7, as well as these that support 2.7 in addition to 3 because
> > they have 2.7 deps.
>
> If we expect actions by developers on both cases I don't see a problem with that.

Pushed as:
    https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=79d65d6641cfc0ef7b44df491c390e8c880e3049
with full text being:

+# Sergei Trofimovich <slyfox@g.o> (2020-06-26)
+# Deprecated.
+# - optional python:2.7 dependency should be dropped if no reverse
+#   dependencies are using it.
+# - mandatory python:2.7 depepndency will require package porting
+#   or package removal if no reverse dependencies are using it.
+dev-lang/python:2.7

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  Sergei