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

[Adrian Bunk]

On Wed, Nov 20, 2019 at 11:57:47AM +0000, Ross Burton wrote:
> On 19/11/2019 16:30, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > You want meta-oe to have a LAYERDEPENDS on a new python2 layer that is
> > not in meta-openembedded?
> 
> Would that be a bad thing?  Layers shouldn't care about where they are
> hosted.

Hosting is less of a problem than maintainership and quality.

And when something isn't good enough for inclusion in meta-oe then 
meta-oe shouldn't depend on it.

> My ideal would be that meta-python2 exists with both the python2 recipes and
> all of the py2 parts of meta-python.  Until meta-oe is Py3-only, it can
> either depend on this layer or recipes are blacklisted unless the layer is
> present.

Layer dependencies are not transparent, a dependency means all users 
have to add meta-python2 to bblayers.conf.

> Ross

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Adrian