[Buildroot] Python 2.7 end of life on January 1, 2020

Arnout Vandecappelle arnout at mind.be
Mon Mar 4 07:20:11 UTC 2019



On 01/03/2019 19:54, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Through a LWN.net article, I recently realized that Python 2.7 will see
> its end of life on January 1, 2020, according to:
> 
>   https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0373/
> 
> You also have a fancy countdown at:
> 
>   https://pythonclock.org/
> 
> This means that our 2020.02 LTS release probably should not have Python
> 2.x anymore ?

 I don't know. We don't usually terminate a package just because it's EOL.
Remember, we have plenty of packages with dead upstreams. Or take Qt 5.6 for
example: it's been EOL for how long now?

 In addition, as opposed to Qt5.6 for example, distros (Debian and Redhat) will
keep on maintaining it for a few years still.

 So I'd say: as long as it doesn't cause breakage, keep it. Definitely as long
as there are other packages depending on it (Kodi...).

 I expect we'll remove it some time during 2020 to make sure it's no longer in
the 2021.02 LTS.

 Regards,
 Arnout

> 
> If that's our decision, then we should probably discuss the deprecation
> path we want to follow to strongly warn users that they should migrate
> away from Python 2.x.
> 
> What do people think about this ?
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Thomas
> 



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