Re:Python 2.7.18, the last release of Python 2
by gnulinux on Monday April 20, 2020 @04:00PM
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Distro maintainers will be patching security bugs for the foreseeable feature. Do you seriously think if there is a security bug found today Debian maintainers will be like "ah, though luck, I suppose people need to upgrade to py3"?..
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Re:Python 2.7.18, the last release of Python 2
by loeg on Monday April 20, 2020 @04:06PM
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Broadly, distros have been ripping out Python2 left and right in advance of 2020. Debian may have a longer support cycle than most and still have Python2 in stable or oldstable.
Re:Python 2.7.18, the last release of Python 2
by shakna on Monday April 20, 2020 @08:06PM
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> Do you seriously think if there is a security bug found today Debian maintainers will be like "ah, though luck, I suppose people need to upgrade to py3"?..
> During DebConf19 we¹ have tried to figure out how to manage Python 2 and PyPy module removal from Debian and below is our proposal. [0]
Debian are in the midst of a large project [1] to remove Python 2 as quickly as they possibly can. Whilst some bugfixes may happen, Debian are already telling you in no uncertain terms:
> port upstream package to python3
> remove any Python 2 use
[0] https://lists.debian.org/debian-python/2019/07/msg00080.html