[OE-core] Removal of Python 2 from oe-core

akuster808 akuster808 at gmail.com
Mon Dec 2 22:51:38 UTC 2019



On 12/2/19 2:27 PM, Ross Burton wrote:
> At the time of writing, pythonclock.org tells me that Python 2.7 will
> retire in 29 days and 1 hour.
>
> This means no more releases of Python 2.  No more security fixes.  No
> critical bug fixes.  No support at all.
>
> As such, we're removing Python 2 from openembedded-core on Monday 9th
> December.  Python 2 isn't required by anything else in oe-core so if
> you just use oe-core this won't have any impact on you.  If you use
> other layers, then these layers may need to be updated.
>
> The recipe will be moved to the newly created meta-python2
> repository[1] for anyone who needs to continue to use Python 2, but
> remember that from 2020 it will not be supported upstream so please do
> simply use Python 2 as a stop-gap before migrating to Python 3.
>
> If you have any questions about this, feel free to ask.

If folks do have security or bug fixes against 2.7.17 for zeus or
warrior branches, you are welcome to send them for possible inclusion
for the stable branches.

- armin
>
> Regards,
> Ross
>
> [1] https://git.openembedded.org/meta-python2/



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