Bug 1737929 (SugarOnPy3) - sugar depends on Python 2
Summary: sugar depends on Python 2
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: SugarOnPy3
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: sugar
Version: 34
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Peter Robinson
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Depends On: 1674828 1701920 1734179 1735100 1736374 1736722 1736897 1736900 1737983 1737985 1737995 1738086 1738104 1738116 1738169 1738170 1738929 1738940 1738941 1738974 1738975 1738976 1738977 1738979 1738980 1738981 1738982 1738983 1738984 1738986 1738988 1738990 1738991 1738992 1738993 1738994 1738995 1738996 1738997 1738998 1738999 1739000 1739001 1739002 1739003 1739004 1739005 1739006 1739007 1739008 1739009 1739054 1739055 1739056 1739057 1739058 1739060 1739061 1739062 1739063 1739064 1739066 1739067 1739068 1739069 1739507 1739509 1739510 1739512 1739513 1739733 1739914 1739915 1747854 1751488 1787243 1787244 1787255 1787256 1787257
Blocks: F31_PY2REMOVAL
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2019-08-06 11:40 UTC by Lumír Balhar
Modified: 2021-04-05 13:23 UTC (History)
9 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2021-04-05 13:23:17 UTC
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install sugar-desktop to Fedora-Mate-armhfp-31-20190824.n.0-sda.raw.xz (39.70 KB, text/plain)
2019-08-28 03:33 UTC, satellitgo
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Description Lumír Balhar 2019-08-06 11:40:18 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 sugar'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 sugar.
If you need anything from us, or something is unclear, please mention it here.

Thank you.

Comment 1 Alex Perez 2019-08-06 23:05:13 UTC
I sit on the Oversight Board for Sugar Labs, as an elected member. Sugar is written in Python, and it makes use of several components/python modules which were never ported to Python 3, such as Telepathy. Sugar was originally written in an era when Python 3 did not exist. 

We are aware of this impending deadline, and have been working to make our codebase compatible with Python 3. Python has no full time programmers, so testing is slow, but work is being done.

Comment 2 Ben Cotton 2019-08-13 16:56:56 UTC
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 31 development cycle.
Changing version to '31'.

Comment 3 Ben Cotton 2019-08-13 17:35:25 UTC
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 31 development cycle.
Changing version to 31.

Comment 4 Lumír Balhar 2019-08-15 07:43:36 UTC
The current plan is to remove packages with dependency on Python 2 from Fedora 32 in the middle of November 2019. If you want to keep your package in Fedora after that date and you cannot port it to Python 3 yet, you need to request a FESCo exception for the package and all its Python 2 dependencies (even transitive) [1]. If you don't want to maintain it anymore, please orphan the package.

If you're considering filing the exception request, let us know. We can help (for example, we can help find all the dependencies).

[1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/RetirePython2#FESCo_exceptions

Comment 5 Peter Robinson 2019-08-19 12:19:39 UTC
going to use this as a tracker for sugar UX migration to python3 and link all the other bugs to depend on this so it can be tracked here.

Comment 6 Petr Viktorin (pviktori) 2019-08-19 13:56:09 UTC
I'm sorry for the spam!

We're trying to gather the information on about 1000 packages. We forgot to check that these 80 of them are related, and just need to be asked once :(

We've made a special case for "sugar-*" and "olpc-*" packages. Others (like "hippo-canvas") aren't that easy to catch: if you get more spam, please complain so we can fix it!

Comment 7 Peter Robinson 2019-08-19 13:59:54 UTC
We're looking to deprecate hippo-canvas, it was used in the old gtk2 Activities, there's a few more to migrate to the gtk3. There's overall been a multi year effort to move to python3 including moving from gstreamer 0.10 python bindings to py3 friendly introspection based gst 1.0 bindings etc. There's only a handful of gtk2 based Activities left (repoquery --whatrequires sugar-toolkit)

Comment 8 satellitgo 2019-08-28 03:33:26 UTC
Created attachment 1608780 [details]
install sugar-desktop to Fedora-Mate-armhfp-31-20190824.n.0-sda.raw.xz

branched f31 arm

Comment 9 Petr Viktorin (pviktori) 2019-10-07 15:07:22 UTC
> We are aware of this impending deadline

I don't like to spam again, but the upstream deadline is in less than 3 months and the Fedora deadline is in little more than a month. I haven't seen much activity on the Fedora side, which makes me worry.

Is everything on track?
Do you need help getting an exception to keep Sugar on Python 2 in Fedora 32, to get some more time?
As it is, the maintainers of packages like python2-numpy, python2-pygame, python2-pytest, python2-simplejson etc. are most likely preparing to remove them. Should we prepare to keep them instead?

Comment 10 Petr Viktorin (pviktori) 2019-10-16 15:55:58 UTC
Is everything on track for the mid-November deadline? Do you need any help?

Comment 11 Petr Viktorin (pviktori) 2019-11-01 17:53:48 UTC
Half a month until the deadline. Do you need more time? (If you do, let's get an exception soon!)
Is there somewhere progress can be tracked? Are there issues upstream, or in packaging?

Comment 12 Alex Perez 2019-11-04 18:41:55 UTC
The Sugar code base and most activities have now been ported to Python 3, and Sugar 0.116 (unstable release) was made back on September 4th[1]. We should probably get a stable release made between now and then, and then this needs to be packaged for Fedora, along with the new Sugar activities, all of which also needed to be ported to Sugar 0.116/Python 3.

[1] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/sugar-devel/2019-September/057175.html

Comment 13 Petr Viktorin (pviktori) 2019-11-05 08:45:41 UTC
> We should probably get a stable release made between now and then

Which "then" is that?

It looks like Sugar won't make the November 15th deadline, and thus needs an exception. Is that right?
If so, we need to coordinate with maintainers of Sugar's dependencies, so they don't remove Python 2 support on November 15. There's about a week to do that. Is that what we need to do?

Comment 14 Peter Robinson 2019-11-08 07:30:57 UTC
FESCo ticket filed here: https://pagure.io/fesco/issue/2267

Comment 15 Adam Williamson 2019-11-27 18:08:45 UTC
sugar-toolkit depends on python2-simplejson and that went away already. This is prevent SoaS images building in Rawhide, e.g. https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=39373467 .

Comment 16 Peter Robinson 2020-01-26 09:32:13 UTC
Core Sugar shell/UX moved to py3.

Comment 17 Ibiam Chihurumnaya 2020-02-19 23:27:18 UTC
Can this be closed as Peter pointed out, Sugar has moved to python3.

Comment 18 Peter Robinson 2020-02-20 10:28:55 UTC
(In reply to Ibiam from comment #17)
> Can this be closed as Peter pointed out, Sugar has moved to python3.

We're using this one to track all of the sugar changes. You can see details here:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/buglist.cgi?bug_id=1737929&bug_id_type=anddependson&format=tvp&list_id=10855354

Comment 19 Ben Cotton 2020-11-03 15:30:35 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
Fedora 'version' of '31'.

Package Maintainer: If you wish for this bug to remain open because you
plan to fix it in a currently maintained version, simply change the 'version' 
to a later Fedora version.

Thank you for reporting this issue and we are sorry that we were not 
able to fix it before Fedora 31 is end of life. If you would still like 
to see this bug fixed and are able to reproduce it against a later version 
of Fedora, you are encouraged  change the 'version' to a later Fedora 
version prior this bug is closed as described in the policy above.

Although we aim to fix as many bugs as possible during every release's 
lifetime, sometimes those efforts are overtaken by events. Often a 
more recent Fedora release includes newer upstream software that fixes 
bugs or makes them obsolete.

Comment 20 Adam Williamson 2020-11-03 22:34:53 UTC
This is being actively worked on and won't be magically fixed by F31 going EOL. Bumping.

Comment 21 Ben Cotton 2021-02-09 15:11:08 UTC
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 34 development cycle.
Changing version to 34.


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