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From: Adolf Belka <adolf.belka@ipfire.org>
To: development@lists.ipfire.org
Subject: Re: Dropping Python 2 (python-optional-src)
Date: Sat, 15 May 2021 10:28:42 +0200
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Hi All,

I just had a look at python-optional-src for converting to python3 but found =
most of it is not present.

There is an lfs file but it does not mention the source file and there are no=
 build instructions.

python-optional-src is not in make.sh so it is not getting built anyway.

There is no rootfile for python-optional-src

I think this lfs can just be deleted. I will raise a patch for this unless I =
hear something different.


Regards,

Adolf.

On 05/05/2021 16:27, Michael Tremer wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I would like to talk about what has been discussed at the last developer co=
nference call this week: Dropping Python 2
>
> This version of Python has reached its end of life and will no longer recei=
ve any security fixes. Hence we need to get rid of it as soon as possible.
>
> However, there is lots of software that still depends on it which has to be=
 migrated away first.
>
> There are at least the following packages:
>
> boost
> fetchmail
> fireinfo
> iotop
> ipaddr
> libxml2
> libxslt
> newt
> nmap
> python
> python-clientform
> python-daemon
> python-distutils
> python-distutils-extra
> python-docutils
> python-feedparser
> python-inotify
> python-ipaddress
> python-m2crypto
> python-mechanize
> python-optional-src
> python-pyparsing
> python-rssdler
> python-setuptools
> python-six
> python-typing
>
> We also have the following scripts:
>
> config/ca-certificates/certdata2pem.py
> config/unbound/unbound-dhcp-leases-bridge
>
> Fireinfo is written by us and has a lot of C which will make it a little bi=
t more difficult to migrate. We would also have to be very careful to not cha=
nge any behaviour of the current implementation.
>
> The rest is probably either software that is entirely written in Python 2 o=
r software that brings bindings for Python. The latter case is easy because w=
e can either force it to build with Python 3 or we just disable the bindings.
>
> Ultimately we might need to keep Python around in the build system if there=
 are other packages that rely on it. However, it would be great if we were ab=
le to remove it from the distribution very soon. Looking at his list, it does=
 not seem to be too difficult.
>
> Would anyone be up to help and remove Python from any of those packages abo=
ve? I would like to aim for Core Update 158 and remove as much stuff as possi=
ble - if we can everything - and then remove Python 2 in the update after tha=
t. If anyone has any custom scripts or applications, people will have some ti=
me to migrate away.
>
> Best,
> -Michael

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