Bug 1751501

Summary:	grass depends on Python 2
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Lumír Balhar <lbalhar>
Component:	grass	Assignee:	Devrim Gündüz <devrim>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	rawhide	CC:	cz172638, devrim, neteler, oliver, pertusus, volker27
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Description Lumír Balhar 2019-09-12 05:43:00 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 grass'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 markusN 2019-09-12 08:02:06 UTC

The final GRASS GIS 7.8.0 with Python 3 support has been published:

https://github.com/OSGeo/grass/releases/tag/7.8.0

I am currently trying to prepare the new RPM (see also bug #1739908)

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 1735313 ***