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 edk2'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 edk2. If you need anything from us, or something is unclear, please mention it here. Thank you.
The latest f31 build doesn't seem to have a python2 dep: [:~] $ ls edk2-* edk2-aarch64-20190501stable-3.fc31.noarch.rpm edk2-qosb-20190501stable-3.fc31.noarch.rpm edk2-arm-20190501stable-3.fc31.noarch.rpm edk2-tools-20190501stable-3.fc31.x86_64.rpm edk2-ovmf-20190501stable-3.fc31.noarch.rpm edk2-tools-doc-20190501stable-3.fc31.noarch.rpm edk2-ovmf-ia32-20190501stable-3.fc31.noarch.rpm edk2-tools-python-20190501stable-3.fc31.noarch.rpm [:~] $ rpm -qp --requires edk2-* | grep python /usr/bin/python3 python3 python3 Is there more info on how the python2 dep was determined?
You are right. Info about edk2 was outdated in portingdb [0]. Thank you. [0] https://fedora.portingdb.xyz/pkg/edk2/