From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Marius Bakke Subject: Re: the upcoming Great Python2 =?utf-8?Q?Purge=E2=84=A2?= Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2018 13:30:53 +0100 Message-ID: <87pnto8o76.fsf@fastmail.com> References: <20181226093812.GR2581@macbook41> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="=-=-="; micalg=pgp-sha512; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:46545) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gc8L1-0000W5-Uq for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 26 Dec 2018 07:31:04 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gc8Kx-0005iz-14 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 26 Dec 2018 07:31:03 -0500 Received: from out1-smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.25]:40093) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gc8Kw-0005cr-OA for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 26 Dec 2018 07:30:58 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20181226093812.GR2581@macbook41> 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: Efraim Flashner , guix-devel@gnu.org --=-=-= Content-Type: text/plain Efraim Flashner writes: > We're now about a year out from the official EOL for python2 (Jan 1, > 2020). So far we've been not adding python2 variants of packages that > are new unless they're actually needed for something. Do we want to > start removing python2 packages when updating other packages if they are > leaf packages? I think it's okay to start removing "leaf" Python 2 packages. In most cases they were probably never used anyway, or the dependents have transitioned to their Python 3 counterparts. We'll probably break some channels, but I'm sure our users won't have any difficulties adding them back to their own channels if need be. On a related note, we also have a number of [Python 3] packages that have been failing to build for a long time. Some of these are trivial, i.e. what "guix import" produces. It would be good to get rid of those as well, as the would-be user is much better off starting from "guix import" instead of first getting disappointed by the Guix package and then having to go through all the trouble of submitting a patch. Should we have some sort of policy or threshold for when to remove such packages? Maybe after 3-6 months? --=-=-= Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQEzBAEBCgAdFiEEu7At3yzq9qgNHeZDoqBt8qM6VPoFAlwjdH4ACgkQoqBt8qM6 VPqtTQf/Su1FUX2jeW9CAVlT+jnkfqaN7cEvc5GJaDM/8y3GSQckEQcx3OkNE6XW tO1vQaBShxN+0ySoiIbDJvJ5pPEaRgg737f3bqNNdXkY32stXSRESEMIdNgPcbUQ lejc7WWLiF3+/Eq1Djc5Is68nAws27o3xvz6hsFfqe/KHWkeuUX0btxHCGo4JAcF HvZN5adOybLK2BlQVZJtdWcn/Q3pUCDfWPqa0H6bIoV6HkQeVSMWaaS1AaiAsHDA qI1xC+kZ54FuIaxLSsjx1WTPwoGhLkTB42RAWJdEOzyE1ygFn+964C46YBPlYF36 gVjRvuF50Pmt9FaTBIvEDcFQ03/Cfw== =xfBd -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-=-=--