Bug 1739732

Summary: python2-numpy depends on Python 2
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Lumír Balhar <lbalhar>
Component: python2-numpyAssignee: Gwyn Ciesla <gwync>
Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Lumír Balhar 2019-08-09 22:11:24 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 python2-numpy'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 Lumír Balhar 2019-08-09 22:12:04 UTC
The reason here is quite obvious but we still need to have some plan.

Comment 2 Lumír Balhar 2019-08-09 22:14:46 UTC
And there is also a lot of dependencies: captcp, gnuradio, gr-air-modes, grass, inkscape, mypaint, python-igor, rootplot, rtlsdr-scanner, sugar-speak

Comment 3 Petr Viktorin (pviktori) 2019-08-11 09:46:44 UTC
If python2-numpy is only here as a dependency, the default plan would be to retire it when nothing more depends on it.
If any of the dependencies need python2-numpy in f32, they will need FESCo exceptions for themselves and numpy.

Comment 4 Ben Cotton 2019-08-13 16:55:09 UTC
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 31 development cycle.
Changing version to '31'.

Comment 5 Ben Cotton 2019-08-13 17:09:56 UTC
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 31 development cycle.
Changing version to 31.

Comment 6 Ben Cotton 2020-11-03 15:32:09 UTC
This message is a reminder that Fedora 31 is nearing its end of life.
Fedora will stop maintaining and issuing updates for Fedora 31 on 2020-11-24.
It is Fedora's policy to close all bug reports from releases that are no longer
maintained. At that time this bug will be closed as EOL if it remains open with a
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Comment 7 Petr Viktorin (pviktori) 2020-11-05 17:19:07 UTC
This is still needed for trac-spamfilter-plugin.

Comment 8 Petr Viktorin (pviktori) 2021-01-14 21:44:50 UTC
There are no more packages that depend on python2-numpy. It can be retired.

Comment 9 Gwyn Ciesla 2021-01-14 22:26:41 UTC
Done.