Hi Mike, Python 2.7 is a build dependency of this port. It is needed AFAIK as a part of the webkit build system.
Yours, Robert Clausecker Am Fri, Nov 19, 2021 at 03:34:03PM +0000 schrieb Mike Clarke: > I'm getting seriously confused about packages with dependency on py27. > > Daily periodic reports from pkg-audit report 39 deprecated packages which use > EOL Python > 2.7, most of them via www/qt5-webengine. For example: > > "kmail-21.08.3: Tag: deprecated Value: Uses EOL Python 2.7 via > www/qt5-webengine" > > ...and > > "qt5-webengine-5.15.2_5: Tag: deprecated Value: Uses Python 2.7 which is > EOLed > upstream" > > But qt5-webengine does not appear to depend on py27 > > curlew:/home/mike% pkg info -d qt5-webengine-5.15.2_5 | grep -c py27 > 0 > Furthermore I don't appear to have any py27 packages in my system > > curlew:/home/mike% pkg info -x py27 > pkg: No package(s) matching py27 > > Most of the deprecated packages are KDE related so if they had a dependency > on py27 I > would expect lots of problems with KDE and that's not happening. > > So what am I missing? > > -- > Mike Clarke -- () ascii ribbon campaign - for an 8-bit clean world /\ - against html email - against proprietary attachments
