Linux distribution without Python 2

Posted Jun 17, 2018 10:56 UTC (Sun) by awilfox (guest, #124923)
Parent article: Linux distributions and Python 2

As lead of Adélie, which was formed in 2015, I've had the true privilege of not packaging Python 2 ever.

We have migrated literally every Py2-requiring package we've dealt with to Py3, and most of it is done in under a day. We always send those patches upstream, as well.

The only sticking point has been gnome-doc-utils, which has a Py3 port in progress, but there's still some issues with it. I'm hopeful we'll be able to ship docs with our Gnome packages some time in 2019 at their current rate.

We have a tracker bug for software that incorrectly uses /usr/bin/python instead of python3, as well, and that's going to need to be handled eventually: https://bts.adelielinux.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41 Just haven't had the time yet.

My rationale for this has always been that we should not be shipping known-deprecated software, nor should we be "propping up" bad practices such as continuing to rely on known-deprecated software.

Linux distribution without Python 2

Posted Jul 16, 2018 14:52 UTC (Mon) by cstratak (subscriber, #109730) [Link]

AFAIK gnome-doc-utils has been deprecated in favour of yelp-tools [0], so it might be easier to just use that. Is there a publicly available place where we can track the porting of gnome-doc-utils?

[0] https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/GnomeDocUtils/MigrationHowTo