[OE-core] [PATCH 01/13] python: update to 2.7.17

[Khem Raj]

On Mon, Nov 18, 2019 at 1:05 PM Adrian Bunk <bunk at stusta.de> wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 18, 2019 at 10:13:05AM -0800, Khem Raj wrote:
> > On Mon, Nov 18, 2019 at 5:08 AM Alexander Kanavin
> > <alex.kanavin at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Drop backports, rebase a couple of patches.
> > >
> > > This is the second last release of py 2.x; upstream support ends on
> > > 1 January 2020, there will be one final 2.x afterwards.
> > >
> > > Note that the only thing that still needs python 2.x in oe-core is
> > > u-boot; when the next u-boot update arrives, we should find out
> > > where the py3 migration is for that component before merging the
> > > update.
> >
> > I guess u-boot need it during build, in that case defer it to user to
> > have python2 on build host
> > could be possible.
> >...
>
> That's a non-option since it could mean
> "Yocto 3.1 cannot be built on Ubuntu 20.04".
>
> Ubuntu 20.04 might end up still shipping Python2,[1]
> but you cannot rely on future distributions shipping it.
>

And why should OE ship something that’s dropped by its own upstream and
other distributions


> cu
> Adrian
>
> [1] it is not clear whether the Python2 removal in Ubuntu
>     will be finished in time for 20.04
>
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