[elbe-devel] [PATCH 0/5] Remove Python 2 support

Olivier Dion dion at linutronix.de
Fri Aug 28 18:46:18 CEST 2020


On Fri, 28 Aug 2020, bage at linutronix.de wrote:
> From: Bastian Germann <bage at linutronix.de>
>
> Python 2 is end of life and most of it will be removed from Debian with
> bullseye.
>
> We should no longer support both Python versions as that imposes a large
> testing burden, especially with the unicode string conversion that hit
> Elbe several times and produced bugs in the last versions.
>
> The last missing package python3-spyne that is not in buster has arrived
> in bullseye now.
> A buster build is available on
> http://debian.linutronix.de/elbe-common.

Finally!!!!  I'm very happy to see this patch.  There's however some
place in Elbe that are not marked with TODO:py3 and I'm sure there's
going to be some encoding errors.

Can you provide your branch on lxcvs so I can rebase on it?
I'll start fixing the TODO:py3 and do intensive testing.

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