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List:       opensuse-factory
Subject:    Re: [opensuse-factory] Removal of Python2 from openSUSE Tumbleweed
From:       Oliver Kurz <okurz () suse ! de>
Date:       2020-01-09 17:14:21
Message-ID: 47865125-57ae-efce-1283-2f90544cdfa1 () suse ! de
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On 09/01/2020 12.32, Simon Lees wrote:
> On 1/9/20 8:57 PM, Adam Majer wrote:
>> […]
>> Python2 is maintained for as long as someone cares enough to maintain
>> it. Maybe it's no longer going to be developed by the Python Software
>> Foundation, but that doesn't mean no one cares about it anymore and it
>> becomes radioactive or something. Don't ignore the ONE and ONLY
>> advantage of Free Software over closed binary-blob software.
> 
> I think the point here is that SUSE doesn't care enough to maintain it
> anymore in its future releases hence it putting in the effort to fix as
> much as possible before removing it.

And no one can be stopped easily from using old, EOL'd Linux 
distributions which still have old, outdated, insecure software but is 
the only old version that still works for a specific use case. 
Containers help as well.
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