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From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
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Cc: Paul Koning <paulkoning@comcast.net>, gdb@sourceware.org,
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Subject: Re: Proposal to remove Python 2 support
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> That has no sense for me because Python 2 doesn't disappear from distros.

I don't know how long this is going to be True, but "distros" have
been shipping Python 3.x for quite a while now, so lack of Python 2
support wouldn't prevent you from building GDB with Python support
enabled.

-- 
Joel