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

[Andreas Müller]

On Tue, Nov 19, 2019 at 12:31 PM Alexander Kanavin
<alex.kanavin at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Tue, 19 Nov 2019 at 08:58, Tim Orling <ticotimo at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> I have the beginnings of scripts to generate a meta-python2 layer. Someone with a vested interest in keeping python2 supported will need to step up to maintain it. After bitbake and Oe-core moved to python3, my use of python2 has gone to near zero.
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>> I intend to move all python2 recipes from meta-python to the new layer. meta-python will become python3 only in 3.1 release timeframe. The bb files and inc files will also be merged, simplifying AUH and devtool usage.
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>> Attempts to send python2 patches to meta-python after that shift will be nacked.
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> Thanks! There is however a missing part: how close is meta-oe to being py2-free? Oe-core is very close (u-boot is the last holdout as noted), but I am not sure that we can simply take out py2, and not have half of meta-oe fail. For instance (random example) mozjs, a fairly important component, still pulls it in, together with a few 3rd party libraries: https://git.openembedded.org/meta-openembedded/tree/meta-oe/recipes-extended/mozjs/mozjs_60.5.2.bb
Will take care on mozjs and interrupt my gnome crusade till its done.
Tried that months ago and used firefox-esr sources because there the
transition to python3-build is marked as working.

Unfortunately I did not succeed. Started that they rely on VERY old
version of parts of autotools - think it was automake. Need/like
polkit although I will never understand why a privileged process uses
javascipt for configuration files...

Cheers

Andreas