Re: should Debian add itself to https://python3statement.org ?
On Thu, 2019-09-12 at 16:14 +0100, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Jim Popovitch writes ("Re: should Debian add itself to https://python3statement.org ?"):
> > On Thu, 2019-09-12 at 16:01 +0100, Ian Jackson wrote:
> > > Drew Parsons writes ("should Debian add itself to https://python3statement.org ?"):
> > > > https://python3statement.org/ is a site documenting the projects which
> > > > are supporting the policy of dropping Python2 to keep Python3 only.
> > >
> > > That statement is a *pledge* to drop support for python2 by the end of
> > > 2020.
> >
> > FWIW, that proposed ending date is 2020-01-01, ~110 days from now.
>
> It says
>
> | the following projects have pledged to drop support for Python 2.7
> | no later than 2020, coinciding with the Python development team's
> | timeline for dropping support for Python 2.7.
>
> which is rather ambiguous.
I agree, that site seems, by-design, to avoid the obvious issue that the
Python Developers have stated (in lots of places) that they will stop
supporting Python 2x on 2020-01-10 (search for "python2 eol")
> If we do interpret it to mean 2020-01-01, I doubt there is any
> realistic chance of us making that, even if we decide we want to.
I agree, it's a time waster to even try. The issue really comes down
to: will DDs support python2 security releases through bullseye's eol.
-Jim P.
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