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To: help-guix Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Received-SPF: pass client-ip=2607:f8b0:4864:20::732; envelope-from=zimon.toutoune@gmail.com; helo=mail-qk1-x732.google.com X-Spam_score_int: -20 X-Spam_score: -2.1 X-Spam_bar: -- X-Spam_report: (-2.1 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIM_SIGNED=0.1, DKIM_VALID=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_AU=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_EF=-0.1, FREEMAIL_FROM=0.001, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE=-0.0001, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-guix@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-guix-bounces+larch=yhetil.org@gnu.org Sender: "Help-Guix" X-Migadu-Flow: FLOW_IN X-Migadu-Spam-Score: -2.06 Authentication-Results: aspmx1.migadu.com; dkim=pass header.d=gmail.com header.s=20161025 header.b=AweP1Z6u; dmarc=pass (policy=none) header.from=gmail.com; spf=pass (aspmx1.migadu.com: domain of help-guix-bounces@gnu.org designates 209.51.188.17 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=help-guix-bounces@gnu.org X-Migadu-Queue-Id: 585F79403C5 X-Spam-Score: -2.06 X-Migadu-Scanner: scn1.migadu.com X-TUID: O6qI6GGoPOuQ Hi, On Fri, 15 Jan 2021 at 17:02, Jorge P. de Morais Neto wrote: > > Hi. I use Guix on a foreign distro---Debian buster (current stable). I > want to upgrade Debian to bullseye (current testing), but bullseye does > not provide security support for Python 2. I still use Python 2 for > OfflineIMAP. There is a Python 3 port of OfflineIMAP, but it was done > very recently and I fear it is probably be buggy. So I would like to > install Guix Python 2 atop Debian bullseye just for OfflineIMAP. Would > that work fine? Does Guix, unlike Debian bullseye, still provide > security support for Python 2? For how long? As far as I know, Guix provides the security support that upstream releases. Using the Guix time-machine, the code that works now should work exactly the same in the future, even if Python 2 is removed in the future Guix releases. Does it make sense? All the best, simon