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> Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2022 10:46:23 -0400
> From: Simon Marchi via Gdb-patches <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>
> 
> diff --git a/gdb/NEWS b/gdb/NEWS
> index 4308e170e41..32d7ae0dd1f 100644
> --- a/gdb/NEWS
> +++ b/gdb/NEWS
> @@ -3,6 +3,9 @@
>  
>  *** Changes since GDB 12
>  
> +* Remove support for building against Python 2, it is now only possible to
> +* build GDB against Python 3.
> +
>  *** Changes in GDB 12

This part is OK.

> diff --git a/gdb/doc/python.texi b/gdb/doc/python.texi
> index 918418b08c9..a401615e898 100644
> --- a/gdb/doc/python.texi
> +++ b/gdb/doc/python.texi
> @@ -18,8 +18,7 @@
>  You can extend @value{GDBN} using the @uref{http://www.python.org/,
>  Python programming language}.  This feature is available only if
>  @value{GDBN} was configured using @option{--with-python}.
> -@value{GDBN} can be built against either Python 2 or Python 3; which
> -one you have depends on this configure-time option.
> +@value{GDBN} can be built against Python 3.

Here, I think we should say "only against Python 3", or say "Python 2
is not supported as of GDB 13", or something to that effect.  Because
it is otherwise strange to mention Python 3, it sounds "out of the
blue".

Thanks.