Bug 1737874
Summary: | syncthing-gtk depends on Python 2 | ||
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Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Lumír Balhar <lbalhar> |
Component: | syncthing-gtk | Assignee: | Fabio Valentini <decathorpe> |
Status: | CLOSED RAWHIDE | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> |
Severity: | unspecified | Docs Contact: | |
Priority: | unspecified | ||
Version: | rawhide | CC: | decathorpe |
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Last Closed: | 2019-08-10 08:09:02 UTC | Type: | Bug |
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Bug Blocks: | 1698500 |
Description
Lumír Balhar
2019-08-06 10:08:49 UTC
(In reply to Lumír Balhar from comment #0) > 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 syncthing-gtk'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?) It's a program written in python, specifically a subset of python that's only compatible with python2. > - What are the upstream/community plans/timelines regarding Python 3? There are none, as far as I know. There's an idle bug report about python3 support: https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing-gtk/issues/487 A pull request to Port it to python3 was dismissed by upstream since "he doesn't know python3 and wouldn't be able to maintain the program after it was ported: https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing-gtk/pull/383 > - 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?) Since upstream is unwilling (or unable) to port this to python3 (or maintain a python3 version), there is no way forward as far as I can see. > This bug is filed semi-automatically, and might not have all the context > specific to syncthing-gtk. > If you need anything from us, or something is unclear, please mention it > here. > > Thank you. The way things stand, I think it's possible that a python3 compatible fork will happen at some point. Either I will switch this package to the fork, or we can drop the package from fedora. I've retired this package in fedora master / f31+. |