Bug 1737844

Summary:	rho depends on Python 2
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Lumír Balhar <lbalhar>
Component:	rho	Assignee:	Chris Hambridge <chambrid>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	31	CC:	alikins, awood, chambrid, dgoodwin, jesusr
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Description Lumír Balhar 2019-08-06 09:56:05 UTC

Python 2.7 will reach end-of-life in January 2020, over 9 years after it was released. This falls within the Fedora 31 lifetime.
Packages that depend on Python 2 are being switched to Python 3 or removed from Fedora: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/F31_Mass_Python_2_Package_Removal#Information_on_Remaining_Packages
Python 2 will be retired in Fedora 32: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/RetirePython2

To help planning, we'd like to know the plans for rho's future. Specifically:


- What is the reason for the Python2 dependency? (Is it software written in Python, or does it just provide Python bindings, or use Python in the build system or test runner?) [remove if clear]

- What are the upstream/community plans/timelines regarding Python 3?

- What is the guidance for porting to Python 3? (Assuming that there is someone who generally knows how to port to Python 3, but doesn't know anything about the particular package, what are the next steps to take?)


This bug is filed semi-automatically, and might not have all the context specific to rho.
If you need anything from us, or something is unclear, please mention it here.

Thank you.

Comment 1 Chris Hambridge 2019-08-07 17:33:37 UTC

- What is the reason for the Python2 dependency?
Software written in Python

- What are the upstream/community plans/timelines regarding Python 3?
No plans for porting rho to Python3. Rho is being sunset in favor of the quipucords (qpc) project.

- What is the guidance for porting to Python 3?
No plans.

rho can be dropped starting in Fedora 31

Comment 2 Lumír Balhar 2019-08-08 06:41:07 UTC

Then, could you please retire it in rawhide?

Comment 3 Chris Hambridge 2019-08-08 14:58:11 UTC

Looks like this is already done.

rho]$ fedpkg retire "Obsoleted by quipucords. See https://github.com/quipucords"
dead.package found, package probably already retired - will not remove files from git or overwrite existing dead.package file

Comment 4 Ben Cotton 2019-08-13 16:49:25 UTC

This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 31 development cycle.
Changing version to '31'.

Comment 5 Miro Hrončok 2019-09-22 11:30:13 UTC

Automation has figured out the package is retired in Fedora 31.

If you like it to be unretired, please open a ticket at https://pagure.io/releng/new_issue?template=package_unretirement