From: Jon Turney <jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk>
To: "cygwin-apps@cygwin.com" <cygwin-apps@cygwin.com>
Subject: python2 removal
Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2023 12:52:43 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <07106598-5bc3-055f-5875-abe5aa7baffc@dronecode.org.uk> (raw)
This has come up in discussion a few times, and is now well overdue, I
think.
Python 2.7 is the last python2 version, which was sunsetted on January
1, 2020.
1) I will be making the following hopefully uncontroversial changes to
cygport in it's next release:
* Make 'inherit python2{,-disutils,-wheel}' an error
* Make 'inherit python-wheel' with PYTHON_WHEEL_VERSIONS containing "2"
or "2.*" an error.
2) Looking for packages whose names don't start with 'python', but where
the current version installs something into
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ and/or into /usr/bin/ with a shebang
containing 'python2', the following packages appear to need rebuilding
for python3:
package source package maintainer
alacarte ORPHANED (Yaakov Selkowitz)
avahi-ui-tools avahi ORPHANED (Yaakov Selkowitz)
buildbot-slave Jon Turney [1]
bzr-fastimport python-fastimport Ken Brown
bzr Jari Aalto
caribou ORPHANED (Yaakov Selkowitz)
cfget Jari Aalto
chm2pdf ORPHANED (Yaakov Selkowitz)
codeville Jari Aalto
cvs2svn ORPHANED (Yaakov Selkowitz)
d-feet ORPHANED (Yaakov Selkowitz)
getmail Jari Aalto
gnome-activity-journal ORPHANED (Yaakov Selkowitz)
guake ORPHANED (Yaakov Selkowitz)
kf5-kapidox ORPHANED (Yaakov Selkowitz)
mozo ORPHANED (Yaakov Selkowitz)
net-snmp-python net-snmp David Rothenberger [2]
offlineimap Jari Aalto
picard ORPHANED (Dr. Volker Zell)
planet ORPHANED (Yaakov Selkowitz)
rpm-python rpm Pavel Fedin
spambayes ORPHANED (Jari Aalto)
tailor Jari Aalto
terminator Mike DePaulo
urlgrabber Jari Aalto
xml2po gnome-doc-utils ORPHANED (Yaakov Selkowitz)
xxdiff ORPHANED (Yaakov Selkowitz)
[1] effectively obsoleted by buildbot-worker, so should just be removed.
[2] also needs rebuilding for perl 5.32
3) There might also still be some other packages lurking which just
install a script with a shebang containing 'python', and assume that
python is python2. I don't know how we could identify those.
4) With that done, one would hope we could just expire all packages as
with names matching:
python27
python27-* (127 of)
python2-*
python-*
But there may be some cases not caught in step 2), where
- the package is not a python module (i.e. source package is not python-*)
- the package shouldn't be removed because it's a dependency of something
So those will need to be identified and inspected to determine what
should happen to them.
5) Other post-cleanup tasks
e.g. python-beautifulsoup can become a virtual package for python-bs4,
once that name isn't being used by the python2-only beautifulsoup 3.x.
next reply other threads:[~2023-01-15 12:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-01-15 12:52 Jon Turney [this message]
2023-01-15 19:31 ` Ken Brown
2023-01-16 12:49 ` Jon Turney
2023-01-16 14:22 ` Ken Brown
2023-01-16 12:49 ` Jon Turney
2023-02-25 16:23 ` Jon Turney
2023-02-25 16:51 ` Adam Dinwoodie
2023-02-26 11:56 ` Jon Turney
2023-04-30 18:25 ` Jon Turney
2023-04-30 20:32 ` Adam Dinwoodie
2023-05-01 17:53 ` Jon Turney
2023-02-25 16:23 ` Jon Turney
[not found] ` <003a01d94a86$750f4b70$5f2de250$@samsung.com>
2023-02-27 13:36 ` Jon Turney
2023-02-25 16:23 ` Jon Turney
2023-03-07 17:27 ` Jon Turney
2023-01-17 2:27 ` David Rothenberger
2023-03-14 19:16 ` Jon Turney
2023-03-14 19:17 ` Jon Turney
2023-03-15 12:56 ` Brian Inglis
2023-03-15 16:46 ` marco atzeri
2023-03-16 13:29 ` ITA (was Re: python2 removal) Jon Turney
2023-03-16 15:53 ` ITA xlsx2csv " Brian Inglis
2023-03-16 18:57 ` Jon Turney
2023-03-16 21:12 ` Brian Inglis
2023-03-22 7:36 ` Jari Aalto
2023-03-22 16:23 ` Jon Turney
2023-04-02 15:47 ` python2 removal Jon Turney
2023-04-02 15:55 ` Jon Turney
2023-06-01 16:54 ` Jon Turney
2023-04-02 16:00 ` Jon Turney
2023-04-03 1:08 ` marco atzeri
2023-04-11 6:49 ` Marco Atzeri
2023-06-04 19:17 ` Jon Turney
2023-07-02 14:30 ` Jon Turney
2023-07-07 18:54 ` Marco Atzeri
2023-07-09 16:50 ` Jon Turney
2024-01-18 19:31 ` Jon Turney
2024-01-18 19:40 ` Jon Turney
2024-01-19 18:23 ` Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty
2024-04-10 19:19 ` Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty
2024-04-11 12:23 ` Jon Turney
2023-06-11 18:06 ` Jon Turney
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