Re: texlive-extra: Python2 removal in sid/bullseye
On Fri, Jan 31, 2020 at 5:21 AM Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at> wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> > 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
can this be very soon instead?
> simply upgrades all py2 to py3 deps, not taking into consideration
> whether the actual files/scripts support/can be used with Py3.
it sounds a bit reckless but you're maintainer, you know whats best
for your package.
> 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.
it's not the first time you mention this, but that wont make it any
truer. Python2 is dead upstream *and* will be removed, something
written 20 years ago will have to be upgraded or removed (that's just
how IT works), and that's the reason why we are a distribution and not
just a bunch of tarballs downloadable from a single source: we
harmonize and organize our packages.
> So, let us happily break all this.
alternatively, you can just actually check what would be broken and
patch it, fix it, remove it.
> I will ignore any bug report against TeX Live packages concerning
> Python henceforth.
it's unfortunate you decided to react this way, but that wont stop the
py2removal effort from continuing, including on TeX Live packages
Regards,
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