Re: Python 3.5 and 3.6 removal (was Re: Bonfire of the Packages)

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

On 24/03/2024 17:46, Jon Turney via Cygwin-apps wrote:
> On 24/03/2024 17:31, Marco Atzeri via Cygwin-apps wrote:
>> On 24/03/2024 15:07, Jon Turney wrote:
>>> On 24/09/2023 13:32, Jon Turney via Cygwin-apps wrote:
>>>
>>> I assume you are OK with the removal of python 3.5 (EOL Sept 2020) 
>>> and 3.6 (EOL Dec 2021)?
>>>
>>> (I'm still dealing with cleaning up the final pieces of python27 
>>> detritus, but these should hopefully be much smaller tasks)
>>>
>>
>> nothing should depend from 3.5
>> not sure for 3.6
> 
> I've automated some of the analysis I was doing for python2 packages and 
> the results are now available at [1].
> 
> So yeah, it looks like nothing uses 3.5.

I've removed some 3.4 detritus, and 3.5

Perhaps you can clarify the situation with python-pip: python-pip 
19.0.3-1, 19.1.1-1 and 19.2.3-1 are not evaluated are being removable, 
despite python35-pip being not needed anymore, as that source also 
produces python-pip-wheel, which is depended upon by 
python3{6,7,8,9}-virtualenv.

A similar situation exists with python-setuptools, python35-setuptools 
and python-setuptools-wheel.

(virtualenv also depends on python-wheel-wheel, but that tracks the 
latest version)

> There are just a couple of packages using 3.6, I guess I'll ping the 
> maintainers about those.
> 
> [1] https://cygwin.com/packages/reports/python_rebuilds.html

It looks like the situation with 3.6 is a bit more complex, as some 
things have a generic python3 dependency, rather than python36 as they 
should, so that report isn't complete.

I have some tools to correct those dependencies, so the situation should 
become clearer after I run those...