Re: Re: dropping python2 [was Re: scientific python stack transitions]

[Scott Kitterman]

On July 16, 2019 3:42:47 PM UTC, Matthias Klose <d...@debian.org> wrote:
>On 16.07.19 17:31, Julien Puydt wrote:
>> Le 16/07/2019 à 17:21, Andrey Rahmatullin a écrit :
>>> Python 2 is included in buster and so will be supported for several
>>> years.
>>>
>> 
>> The starting point of the thread was :
>> 1. Ok, buster has Python 2 so even if upstream drops it, we will
>still
>> support it for the years to come for our users ;
>> 2. but the next stable will come out after upstream has EOL-ed Python
>2,
>> so we must kick it out as soon as possible from testing+unstable,
>
>> because there's no way we'll support Python 2 in that next stable!
>
>no, that's your interpretation, not mine.  If an important enough
>application
>still needs it, we should ship it.

I completely agree.  The reason I put in for a tracker is to make it easier to 
see where people can focus to start burning down the stack.  Not because I am 
confident we'll get there this cycle.

Scott K