Control: tags -1 patch Hi all, On Tue, 24 Apr 2018 06:08:08 +0000 Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org> wrote: > i'm not sure we have consensus that buster is the last release to > support python2, but it's definitly time to have a note there saying > that python2 will be EOL upstream by 2020. How about the attached patch? Paul
From 20b9ff8526bedf95d6482d90a11f2b33b1debdc3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Paul Gevers <elbrus@debian.org>
Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2019 22:55:16 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] en/issues.dbk: add note about Python 2 becoming EOL in 2020
Closes: #896717
---
en/issues.dbk | 10 ++++++++--
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/en/issues.dbk b/en/issues.dbk
index 4bf9b8dd..71790676 100644
--- a/en/issues.dbk
+++ b/en/issues.dbk
@@ -99,8 +99,14 @@ information mentioned in <xref linkend="morereading"/>.
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
- <para>TODO: Add items if any
- </para>
+ <para>
+ Python 2 will stop being supported by its upstream on <ulink
+ url="https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0373/";>January 1,
+ 2020</ulink>. &Debian; hopes to drop <systemitem
+ role="package">python-2.7</systemitem> for &nextrelease;. If users
+ have functionality that relies on <command>python</command>, they
+ should prepare to migrate to <command>python3</command>.
+ </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
--
2.20.1
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