Bug 1738956

Summary:	gresistor depends on Python 2
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Lumír Balhar <lbalhar>
Component:	gresistor	Assignee:	Richard Shaw <hobbes1069>
Status:	CLOSED EOL	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	31	CC:	chitlesh, hobbes1069
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Description Lumír Balhar 2019-08-08 12:05:27 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 gresistor'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 gresistor.
If you need anything from us, or something is unclear, please mention it here.

Thank you.

Comment 1 Ben Cotton 2019-08-13 16:57:55 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 17:29:19 UTC

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

Comment 3 Richard Shaw 2019-08-14 01:40:44 UTC

This has not had a real release since 2013 and is unlikely to be updated for Python 3. If it were just the project itself I would try 2to3 converter but it also has dependencies that are likely to go away. It may be best to retire this package.

Comment 4 Lumír Balhar 2019-08-14 04:29:50 UTC

You are right. Gresistor is a leaf package (nothing depends on it) so it can be freely removed from rawhide. Could you please do it?

Thank you!

Comment 5 Richard Shaw 2019-08-14 06:09:58 UTC

Retired in rawhide