Bug 1738181

Summary: redhat-lsb depends on Python 2
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Lumír Balhar <lbalhar>
Component: redhat-lsbAssignee: Lukáš Nykrýn <lnykryn>
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 31CC: igor.raits, lnykryn, mhroncok, ovasik, zbyszek
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Description Lumír Balhar 2019-08-06 13:23:26 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 redhat-lsb'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?)


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Thank you.
Comment 1 Ben Cotton 2019-08-13 17:35:08 UTC 
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 31 development cycle.
Changing version to 31.
Comment 2 Lumír Balhar 2019-08-15 07:48:42 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 3 Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek 2019-08-15 08:52:33 UTC 
My suggestion would be to keep redhat-lsb depending on whatever package provides /usr/bin/python. This will not satisfy the requirements specified by LSB entirely, but unfortunately LSB is dead and is not getting the necessary updates. Keeping redhat-lsb and pulling in a working python interpreter from it, seems to me to be the least bad option.
Comment 4 Lukáš Nykrýn 2019-08-15 09:35:43 UTC 
Since redhat-lsb already only has 	
Requires: /usr/bin/python 
I guess this one could be closed?
Comment 5 Miro Hrončok 2019-08-15 09:50:16 UTC 
Correct.