Re: Performing dist-upgrade on powerpc and ppc64

[John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de>]

Hello,

On Thu, 2024-04-04 at 22:00 +0200, Riccardo Mottola wrote:
> I miss python2.7 though. python2.7-minimal appears to be intact, but I 
> need more modules to compile ArcticFox. I suppose what I need is in  
> libpython2.7-stdlib, but this needs libtirpc3:powerpc which is a t64 
> transitioning package.
> 
> Is 2.7 gone for good or is it a temporary issue on PPC?

Python 2.7 was removed from Debian unstable in December 2022 [1]. The
motivations for the removal are explained in [2].

If still needed, the package can be rebuilt from the older sources
against the current updated shared library t64 packages [3].

Adrian

> [1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1027108
> [2] https://wiki.debian.org/Python/2Removal
> [3] http://snapshot.debian.org/package/python2.7/

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