Bug 1737861

Summary:	shedskin depends on Python 2
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Lumír Balhar <lbalhar>
Component:	shedskin	Assignee:	Thomas Spura <tomspur>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	rawhide	CC:	mhroncok, pviktori, tomspur
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Description Lumír Balhar 2019-08-06 10:03:50 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 shedskin'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?) 

- 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 shedskin.
If you need anything from us, or something is unclear, please mention it here.

Thank you.

Comment 1 Ben Cotton 2019-08-13 17:08:38 UTC

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

Comment 2 Ben Cotton 2019-08-13 17:53:39 UTC

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

Comment 3 Lumír Balhar 2019-08-15 07:46:01 UTC

Please answer the above questions. If you don't, the package can be orphaned: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/F31_Mass_Python_2_Package_Removal#Information_on_Remaining_Packages

If you need any information or help, or if you need some more time, please let us know.

Comment 4 Thomas Spura 2019-08-15 21:38:26 UTC

Upstream relies on the compiler module quite heavily, which is python 2 only.
There is a pull request to replace it with ast module which could be ported to python 3 afterwards: https://github.com/shedskin/shedskin/pull/261

Porting to python 3 is definitely appreciated from upstream, yet unclear about the timeline.

Hope that helps...

Comment 5 Petr Viktorin (pviktori) 2019-08-16 09:22:48 UTC

If you'd like to keep the package in Fedora 32, please open a FESCo exception for it. An example is here: https://pagure.io/fesco/issue/2208

However, nothing in Fedora needs the compiler, and it seems it doesn't have many users. It might be time to retire it from Fedora, and let developers pip install it from upstream if they need it.

Comment 6 Miro Hrončok 2019-11-28 01:22:05 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 1777642 ***