Re: [Qemu-devel] Deprecation policy and build dependencies

[John Snow]

On 5/31/19 3:24 PM, Eduardo Habkost wrote:
> Long story short: I would really like to drop support for Python
> 2 in QEMU 4.1.
> 
> What exactly prevents us from doing this?  Does our deprecation
> policy really apply to build dependencies?
> 

Normally I'd say it's only nice to also follow the depreciation policy
for tooling as well to give people a chance to switch away, but with
regards to Python2, I feel like we're in the clear to drop it for the
first release that will happen after the Python2 doomsday clock.

(So, probably 4.2.)

--js