> … "given that we've had 15 YEARS of warning that this was coming" …
This right here is the part that I'm still having troubles wrapping my brain around. People still stressing about Python 2 "going away" (it's gone folks; accept it) despite the fact that there's been well beyond a decade of advance warning, and Python 2 having been officially EOL ages ago now.
Re:Python 2 Removed from Debian
by still_grokking on Sunday January 08, 2023 @01:10PM
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People won't move until heavens fall down on them.
And than they will start complaining that it's other peoples fault that they didn't move.
Older versions of debian that still support python2 will theoritically be around forever, and any codebase that absolutely needs them should always work.
(though I contend that, given that we've had 15 YEARS of warning that this was coming, such instances should be vanishingly rare and not under active development)