On 3/15/21 2:10 PM, Morten Linderud via arch-dev-public wrote: > Yo! > > As people know python2 has been unsupported for a year and we current have > ~170 > python2 packages in our repositories. Currently the removal has been fairly > slow > and done a bit ad-hoc. There has been a todo list but the follow up to that > has > not really been great and I think it's reasonable for us to try and fix the > remaining packages to the best of our abilities. > > Thus I'm proposing a game plan! > > 1) Todo list for removal of all python2 checkdepends in packages
For the record, I'm not really happy about this since I feel we should endeavor to test all software in the repos. I don't believe python2 should be an exception. I believe we can do this right, though. For example, yesterday you asked me directly about html5lib and its check dependency on the lxml, bs4, soupsieve build cycle dependency. I responded that I don't want to drop the testsuite entirely, however, lxml is an optional treebuilder for html5lib and we only have html5lib in the repos *anyway* due to being used in the leaf package "python2-pip". So, I removed the checkdepends on python2-lxml, excluded the lxml treebuilder tests from the check() function, and stopped advertising lxml support in python2-html5lib: https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/community.git/commit/trunk?h=packages/python-html5lib&id=872eb6022921c71ef871bd9699f6353262f29b5c However, I did not drop python2-pytest-expect since I need it to test the functionality which pip uses. I would like to continue doing so... > 2) Remove free python2 packages > 3) Remove packages with python3 equivalents > 4) Remove unported and unsupported packages depending on python2 > > Clearly this is ambitious and there are going to be exceptions, but it would > be > great to have most of this work done within the next couple of months. > > The exceptions are largely going to be anything still using python2 for their > build system dependencies. This is a fine compromise as this should leave us > with a minimal set of packages to take care of. > > Rest of the problematic packages can be found on a handy list with what fedora > is working on: https://fedora.portingdb.xyz/ > > If there are no objections I'll start preparing the needed todo lists and > figure > out the uneeded python2 packages. Should probably update the long-standing > python2 removal todo as well. > > https://archlinux.org/todo/conversion-of-programs-that-use-python-2-to-python-3/ > > > Cheers! > -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User
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