Housekeeping #3350
[TODO] Deprecate python2 packages
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Description
As you may have noticed, Arch deprecated python2 but we still have python2 packages in our repositories. We should either deprecate them or add back python2 to our repos. However, since python2 reached its EOL, we should follow Arch's example instead of including obsolete software, unless there's a very good reason for it.
History
Updated by bill-auger over 1 year ago
- Status changed from open to duplicate
yes i agree, this one should be closed - we have been tracking python2 dependents and other unsatisfiable packages for over a year, on #3018 and #3237 (ie: totally saw this coming - it was only a matter of time) - most python2 dependents were ejected from arch at that time; and eli warned us about it - i wrote to the dev list about this friday, to start a discussion about what to do about them, finally
https://lists.parabola.nu/pipermail/dev/2022-September/008354.html
i planned to update the package list on #3237, one last time - i did not yet; because the script i have been writing for this purpose behaved badly for 'python2'; so that needs some tweaking first - a rough estimate from the (broken) output, is that the total number of packages affected by this is over 100
Updated by bill-auger over 1 year ago
just to add though, "obsolete" is the wrong term for this situation, generally - obsolete implies that the software is useless, or that something much better can replace it - that is not necessarily the case for most of these - probably most of them still work perfectly and may still be useful - so we actually need to decide which ones are truly useless, replaceable, or broken