Re: Python 2 end-of-life?

[Konrad Hinsen <konrad.hinsen@fastmail.net>]

Hi Hartmut,

> I assume many of these package can be updated. (Indeed I just updated
> pdfposter, which I'm maintaining.)

Great. That's the kind of response I was hoping for!

> bypthon2 and ptpython2 are REPLs for python2 - bypthon and ptpython are
> the resp. packages for python3.

There are a few other packages in my list that are part of the Python 2
universe (my own nmoldyn for example), but I see no easy way to detect
them in an analysis of the package graph. Perhaps I could filter out
packages whose dependencies are *all* from the Python 2 universe.

> Regarding the qt packages: I updated them on staging, but still have
> Python 2 in there. I will take care of these.

Excellent. Lots of other packages depend on those, so that will be a big
step towards Python 2 independence.

LLVM/clang looks like another important building block to liberate from
Python 2. I hope someone can take a look at that.

Cheers,
  Konrad.