Re: News post draft: Dropping python2 from the repositories

[Johannes Löthberg]

Excerpts from Morten Linderud's message of September 22, 2022 11:48:

Yo,

We are just missing a couple of packages before we can fully remove python2 from

Thanks to Jelle for all the hard work<3

Here is a suggestion for a news entry for the removal itself

Subject: Removing python2 from the repositories

We have removed python2 from the main repositories. If you still require the
python2 package you need to build it from the AUR, or use an [unofficial user
repository](https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Unofficial_user_repositories).

the repositories.

Woo, great news.  Awesome job everyone involved!  <3



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Sincerely,
 Johannes Löthberg :: SA0DEM :: he/him

I agree that it would make sense to mention Python 2 being long past its EOL date because people will inevitably become upset and confused as to why this was done, and mentioning that should hopefully lessen at least some of the confusion.

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