Arch Linux drops Python 2

Posted Sep 23, 2022 16:12 UTC (Fri) by ceplm (subscriber, #41334)
Parent article: Arch Linux drops Python 2

I wonder what they do with Chromium and Gimp. These are the only ones which keep openSUSE to drop Python 2 from Factory (https://is.gd/Gpi7Aw).

Posted Sep 23, 2022 16:20 UTC (Fri) by Vorpal (guest, #136011) [Link] (2 responses)

I checked. Gimp is being built without python support. I don't see anything obvious in the chromium PKGBUILD, it seems to depend on Python 3 already: https://github.com/archlinux/svntogit-packages/blob/packa... ("python" in makedepends).

Posted Sep 23, 2022 19:44 UTC (Fri) by ceplm (subscriber, #41334) [Link] (1 responses)

Which is surprising considering https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=942720 is still live and happily opened.

Posted Sep 26, 2022 10:45 UTC (Mon) by khim (subscriber, #9252) [Link]

Chromium build doesn't require Python 2 anymore, although some optional tests still require it.

Posted Sep 23, 2022 20:21 UTC (Fri) by jmm (subscriber, #34596) [Link]

Chromium in Debian is built using Python 3 since Chromium 97. But the qt5 webkit packages still include an old copy which needs Python 2