Hi Matthias, On Mon, 11 Nov 2019, Matthias Klose wrote: > sure, and when everybody is doing that, we end up with Python2 in bullseye+2 > as well. Python3 is around for 10+ years now...
Well, the whole py2/py3 mess shouldn't have happened at all, but this is not any of our faults, but purely Python devs. > As an example for texlive-base, we filed https://bugs.debian.org/938655 two Yes, we have a lot of python scripts, and some have been written more than 10 years ago, and there is no maintainer anymore. TeX world is different, people expect that their stuff from 20 years ago still works the same way - and it does, besides when some #%$'%#$$# decides to deprecate a whole programming language. All those short-sighted devs should learn from DEK. I am working on this, but tracking down devs from the early 2000 years and ask them to update their scripts to Py3 is bothersome. And *we* at the TeX side prefer not to simply throw out old stuff, see above. Best Norbert -- PREINING Norbert http://www.preining.info Accelia Inc. + IFMGA ProGuide + TU Wien + JAIST + TeX Live + Debian Dev GPG: 0x860CDC13 fp: F7D8 A928 26E3 16A1 9FA0 ACF0 6CAC A448 860C DC13
