Bug#938656: texlive-extra: Python2 removal in sid/bullseye
On Thu, Feb 6, 2020 at 10:23 AM Hilmar Preuße <hille42@web.de> wrote:
>
> Am 31.01.2020 um 11:21 teilte Norbert Preining mit:
>
> Hi Norbert,
>
> >> could you please have a look at this bug soon? texlive-science is the
> >
> > Well, I will upload some packages at some point in the future, which
> > simply upgrades all py2 to py3 deps, not taking into consideration
> > whether the actual files/scripts support/can be used with Py3.
> >
> > We are talking about 10000+ files to be checked, and the gratious
> > deprecation of Py2 creates a bit of problems in TeX, where packages
> > that have been written 20 years ago are **still** in use, despite
> > not having a maintainer.
> >
> > So, let us happily break all this.
> >
> I'm not sure what you mean if you say "all this". Currently I see just
> one python script in texlive-sience
>
> hille@sid:~ $ dpkg -L texlive-science|grep \.py$
> /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/scripts/sympytexpackage/sympytex.py
>
> ..and yes it depends on python-sympy. Nevertheless I think we can drop
> the recommendation on python-sympy and the dep on python2: it will just
> break /one/ script.
FYI sympy in debian unstable already dropped python2 support:
https://packages.qa.debian.org/s/sympy/news/20200202T205535Z.html
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