Bug 1805231 - firefox requires Python 2 to build
Summary: firefox requires Python 2 to build
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Status: NEW
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Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: firefox
Version: 38
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Assignee: Gecko Maintainer
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks: BRPY27
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Reported: 2020-02-20 14:22 UTC by Petr Viktorin (pviktori)
Modified: 2023-04-27 08:01 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2020-10-08 14:54:43 UTC
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Mozilla Foundation 1496527 0 -- NEW [meta] Support python 3 across Firefox projects 2023-06-08 12:53:36 UTC

Description Petr Viktorin (pviktori) 2020-02-20 14:22:09 UTC
Python 2 reached upstream end-of-life in January 2020. In Fedora Rawhide, it's now provided from the compat package `python27`.
Packages that only use Python 2 at build time, like firefox, had a general exception to keep using it in Fedora 31. Now, the dependency should be removed.
Let us know if you need any help investigating or removing the dependency. (There are dozens of packages like this, so we didn't investigate this one thoroughly. We assume you know the package best.)

If it's possible that the dependency won't be removed in Fedora 33. Please request a FESCo exception. You can refer to the exception for mercurial as an example: https://pagure.io/fesco/issue/2243
It's good to mention:

- What is the reason for the Python 2 build dependency?

- What are the upstream/community plans/timelines regarding Python 2?

- What is the guidance for porting the build 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?)

If you need anything from us, or something is unclear, please mention it here.

Comment 1 Antonio T. (sagitter) 2020-02-20 19:24:20 UTC
Firefox does not build yet with Python2:

Upstream Python3 migration notes [1]:
"In mozilla-central there are over 3500 Python files (excluding third party files), comprising roughly 230k lines of code. Most of it is Python 2"

[1] https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Python_3_Migration

Comment 2 Martin Stransky 2020-02-20 21:14:13 UTC
If python2.7 is removed from Fedora we'd need to bundle it with Firefox sources as well as we do that for firefox on RHEL6. Perhaps we don't need system wide python in this case. We're not going to port Firefox build scripts to python3 as we have lot of other work to do.

Comment 3 Petr Viktorin (pviktori) 2020-02-27 12:21:33 UTC
Thanks for the wiki link and sharing the plans!

In Fedora, it would make sense to continue maintaining the python2 package separately, rather than bundle it in Firefox.
But we do want to track the situation, gather info and coordinate (and we use these bugzillas and FESCo exceptions for that).

Comment 5 Ben Cotton 2020-08-11 13:09:05 UTC
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 33 development cycle.
Changing version to 33.

Comment 6 Petr Viktorin (pviktori) 2020-10-08 14:54:43 UTC
I see that this is fixed at least in the Rawhide build. Thank you!

Comment 7 Petr Viktorin (pviktori) 2021-04-07 11:31:59 UTC
I see that as of 87.0-10.fc35, firefox again requires python2.7 to build. I guess this was a case of temporarily skipped tests.

Comment 9 Ben Cotton 2021-11-04 14:45:50 UTC
This message is a reminder that Fedora 33 is nearing its end of life.
Fedora will stop maintaining and issuing updates for Fedora 33 on 2021-11-30.
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 '33'.

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Comment 10 Ben Cotton 2021-11-04 15:44:09 UTC
This message is a reminder that Fedora 33 is nearing its end of life.
Fedora will stop maintaining and issuing updates for Fedora 33 on 2021-11-30.
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 '33'.

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 33 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 11 Ben Cotton 2022-02-08 21:33:52 UTC
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 36 development cycle.
Changing version to 36.

Comment 12 Ben Cotton 2023-04-25 16:40:03 UTC
This message is a reminder that Fedora Linux 36 is nearing its end of life.
Fedora will stop maintaining and issuing updates for Fedora Linux 36 on 2023-05-16.
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'version' of '36'.

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Comment 13 Petr Viktorin (pviktori) 2023-04-27 08:01:49 UTC
It's still there.


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