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 svnmailer'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 svnmailer. If you need anything from us, or something is unclear, please mention it here. Thank you.
There are two issues here: 1. svnmailer requires python bindings for subversion, which are not currently built for Python 3 2. svnmailer has been dead upstream for several years so porting to Python 3 will need to be done downstream
Do you have any plan to do point 2?
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 31 development cycle. Changing version to '31'.
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, and nothing in Fedora uses it, you can retire it or just remove the Python 2 part from it (subpackage, module, bindings, etc.). 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
I won't be using it anymore and upstream looks dead so I'm ok with retiring it in newer version of Fedora
OK, let's orphan it now then so that if anyone's interested in it, they can pick it up. If they don't, it will get auto-retired in a couple of months.
Miro, could you please orphan it?
Done.
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svnmailer was retired prior to the release of Fedora 32.