From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Pjotr Prins Subject: Re: Python 2 retirement =?utf-8?B?4oCUIHdo?= =?utf-8?Q?at?= should Guix do? Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2018 09:45:15 +0200 Message-ID: <20180618074515.cgaa22gzebh6bau5@thebird.nl> References: <20180616180118.GA9585@jasmine.lan> <87h8m25tuc.fsf@elephly.net> <87lgbdjerr.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:52131) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fUoqn-0006ez-Gf for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Jun 2018 03:45:22 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fUoqk-0006nP-6Q for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Jun 2018 03:45:21 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87lgbdjerr.fsf@gnu.org> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Ludovic =?iso-8859-1?Q?Court=E8s?= Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org On Sun, Jun 17, 2018 at 11:15:36PM +0200, Ludovic Court=C3=A8s wrote: > Softening the policy to add =E2=80=9Cpython2-=E2=80=9D packages sounds = like a good way > to move forward. For new packages, it=E2=80=99s quite simply: just don= =E2=80=99t > provide the =E2=80=9Cpython2-=E2=80=9D variant unless it=E2=80=99s requ= ired. For existing > packages, it seems trickier though. Which packages would we remove and > when? =20 When they break and no one is interested in fixing. As long as there is interest there will be fixers. Pj.