Bug 1731636 - londonlaw depends on Python 2
Summary: londonlaw depends on Python 2
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Status: CLOSED EOL
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Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: londonlaw
Version: rawhide
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Hans de Goede
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks: F31_PY2REMOVAL
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Reported: 2019-07-20 06:57 UTC by Lumír Balhar
Modified: 2019-08-10 15:38 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2019-08-10 15:38:43 UTC
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Description Lumír Balhar 2019-07-20 06:57:56 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 londonlaw's future. Specifically:

- 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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Comment 1 Lumír Balhar 2019-07-29 04:49:03 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, please let us know.

Comment 2 Hans de Goede 2019-07-29 14:48:23 UTC
(In reply to Lumír Balhar from comment #0)
> To help planning, we'd like to know the plans for londonlaw's future.
> Specifically:
> 
> - What are the upstream/community plans/timelines regarding Python 3?

The original upstream for this client / server based game is dead, there is a new upstream here:
https://github.com/anyc/londonlaw

But that is not really active either, quoting them:
"Please note: I will not invest much time into development but patches are welcome."

> - 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?)

There is no guidance for porting to Python 3, I believe that in thiscase it is probably best to remove this game from Fedora once python2 support gets dropped.

I've not looked, but I suspect that porting this will be non trivial, it is a gui app based on wxpython, so strings in a lot of places + network protocol stuff.

Comment 3 Lumír Balhar 2019-08-09 14:59:04 UTC
Because nothing depends on this package, it would be nice to retire it in rawhide sooner than later.

Comment 4 Hans de Goede 2019-08-10 15:38:43 UTC
Ack, it would be good to retire this before branching, so I've just done that, closing.


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