Re: python2 removal

[Jon Turney <jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk>]

On 02/04/2023 16:47, Jon Turney via Cygwin-apps wrote:
> On 14/03/2023 19:17, Jon Turney via Cygwin-apps wrote:
>> On 15/01/2023 12:52, Jon Turney via Cygwin-apps wrote:
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>> [...]
>>>
>>> 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.
>>
>> The remaining cases of packages which have a dependency on python 
>> and/or python2 are either this (packages which contain a python script 
>> with a python shebang line), or the other case which I hadn't 
>> previously considered - a package which contain an executable or 
>> shared library linked with libpython2.7.dll.
>>
>> So, again I need inspect these to determine what should happen to them.
> 
> So here's the list, with *tentative* notes of the disposition for each 
> package.
[...]
	
> source package         package                 maintainer                    notes      
> 
> cfv                    cfv                     Jari Aalto                    [†][§]
> svn-load               svn-load                Jari Aalto                    [†][§]
> webcheck               webcheck                Jari Aalto                    [†][§]
> 
> [†] contains some python scripts
> [§] script is python2 only, not compatible with python3

Hi Jari,

I believe these packages all need updating for python3.

Please confirm if this assessment is correct, and let me know if you 
intend to do this, otherwise I will assume these packages are orphaned 
and they will be removed.

Thanks.