On Mon, Mar 26, 2018 at 11:58:57AM +0200, Petr Viktorin wrote:
And if you read the original mail to the end, you'll find that
our
position is not as black-and-white as it might look from the Subject
line.
As Python SIG we maintain old Python versions like 2.6 or 3.3
*today* – but just for developers who need to test backwards
compatibility of their upstream libraries; we don't want to see them
used as a base for Fedora packages. Why? To make sure Fedora
packages work with modern Python, and to have only one
time-sensitive place to concentrate on when a critical security fix
comes. We want to put Python 2.7 in the same situation.
Sorry I'm a late to this thread. Have you considered making the
"legacy" python 2.7 a module? This would provide a clear way to define
the lifecycle and service level expectations.
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Matthew Miller
<mattdm(a)fedoraproject.org>
Fedora Project Leader