Re: [gentoo-dev] Python 2 cleanup update

[Michał Górny]

On Sun, 2020-09-27 at 11:08 -0700, Alec Warner wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 27, 2020 at 10:45 AM Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o> wrote:
>
> > Hello, everyone.
> >
> > TL;DR: we're nearing the total annihilation of Python 2 software
> > in Gentoo.  Most users could safely disable py2 USE flags today.
> > Python 2 vulns have been patched recently, the interpreter and a few
> > packages using Python at build time (with no deps) will stay.  Should we
> > change PYTHON_TARGETS now, or wait some more and just annihilate
> > the py2 flag from all packages?
> >
> >
> > Long version:
> >
> > We're reached the point where the majority of packages relying on py2
> > have either been ported to py3, removed or masked for removal.
> > As a result, I've been able to eliminate python2_7 target from the vast
> > majority of dev-python/* packages.  On their next system upgrade, our
> > users are going to notice most of Python 2.7 modules gone from their
> > systems.
> >
> > However, because of their reverse dependencies a few packages can't lose
> > their py2.7-iness, and therefore are going to block depcleaning Python
> > 2.7 for now.  These include old versions of setuptools, numpy, pillow,
> > as well as all versions of cython, nose, pykerberos, pyyaml and their
> > dependencies.  The major blockers for them are:
> >
> > - dev-lang/gdl (py entirely optional but the package itself is seriously
> > broken)
> >
> > - dev-db/mongodb (py3 version was just stabilized, need to decide how to
> > clean old versions up)
> >
> > - games-engines/renpy (no py3 version yet)
> >
> > - media-tv/kodi (py3 version in alpha)
> >
> > We plan to have these packages fixed or removed by the deadline.
> >
> >
> > However, we already know that there are some packages that use Python 2
> > at build time and that will keep requiring it past the deadline.
> > The initial list includes:
> >
> > - dev-python/pypy* (TODO: need to figure bootstrap out)
> >
> > - dev-lang/spidermonkey, www-client/seamonkey, www-client/firefox...
> > (thank you, Mozilla)
> >
> > - www-client/chromium, dev-qt/qtwebengine... (thank you, Google)
> >
> > Sadly, the big corps are too busy improving their spying functionality
> > and creating NIH programming languages to take care of such minor
> > matters as cleaning up.
> >
>
> https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/list?q=Proj%3DPython3Migration&can=2
> is the tracker for python3 migration for chromium. I resent the implication
> that Google is 'too busy' to work on it.
>
> E.g. on
> https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=941669&q=Proj%3DPython3Migration&can=2
> the last commit was Sept 26, or yesterday ;p
>

Do you happen to have some 'starting date' too?

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Best regards,
Michał Górny