Breaking python2.4 compatibility for bzr-2.4

[Eric Siegerman]

On Wed, 2011-04-20 at 23:09 -0500, Matthew D. Fuller wrote:
On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 11:43:02PM -0400 I heard the voice of
> Eric Siegerman, and lo! it spake thus:
> > 
> >   - FreeBSD, about which Matt Fuller said, "For me personally,
> >     and with-hat: FreeBSD maintainer, gopher it".
> 
> The default in ports switched to 2.7 about a month and a half ago.
> Previously it went to 2.6 in June 2009.  That's plenty long enough to
> not much care about anything older.

Agreed; FreeBSD 7.2, the release I listed, is pretty ancient, and
indeed it's no longer supported.

> >   - NetBSD, which IIRC uses FreeBSD's "ports" collection; if so,
> >     what Matt says re. FreeBSD should apply here too.
> 
> It does not; it uses its own pkgsrc (also used by Dragonfly and some
> other places AIR).

Oops; thanks for the correction.  It weakens my argument,
especially seeing as NetBSD's only release with 2.6+ is only five
months old.

I withdraw my previous conclusion; I abstain both on dropping 2.4
support, and if that happens, on whether to drop 2.5 as well.

Hopefully my data (as corrected by Matt) will still be of some
use.  And hopefully it *is* correct now :-/

  - Eric