Bug 1737960
| Summary: | dtc depends on Python 2 | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Lumír Balhar <lbalhar> |
| Component: | dtc | Assignee: | Peter Robinson <pbrobinson> |
| Status: | CLOSED RAWHIDE | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> |
| Severity: | unspecified | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | unspecified | ||
| Version: | 31 | CC: | arnd, jwboyer, pbonzini, pbrobinson |
| Target Milestone: | --- | Keywords: | Triaged |
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | Unspecified | ||
| OS: | Unspecified | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | If docs needed, set a value | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
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| Last Closed: | 2019-09-18 11:59:39 UTC | Type: | Bug |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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| Bug Depends On: | 1719411 | ||
| Bug Blocks: | 1698500 | ||
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Description
Lumír Balhar
2019-08-06 12:07:59 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 dtc'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 currently required by U-Boot for building, U-Boot upstream is working to move to python3 but it's not complete yet. > - What are the upstream/community plans/timelines regarding Python 3? Hopefully the U-Boot 2019.10 release in October. > - 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 dtc. > If you need anything from us, or something is unclear, please mention it > here. > > Thank you. This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 31 development cycle. Changing version to '31'. This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 31 development cycle. Changing version to 31. The current plan is to remove packages with dependency on Python 2 from Fedora 32 in the middle of November 2019. If you want to keep your package in Fedora after that date and you cannot port it to Python 3 yet, you need to request a FESCo exception for the package and all its Python 2 dependencies (even transitive) [1]. If you don't want to maintain it anymore, please orphan the package. If you want to maintain the package but not the Python 2 part, either coordinate with packages that depend on this one, or let us know. If you're considering filing the exception request, let us know. We can help (for example, we can help find all the dependencies). [1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/RetirePython2#FESCo_exceptions It seems that this package is Python-3-only. Thank you! |