Python2 demotion (moving from main to universe) in progress

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Sat, 09 Dec 2017 14:31:12 +0100, Xen wrote:
>I am pretty sure that if the upstream devs would have taken a more 
>considerate approach, businesses would actually have been willing to 
>fund security maintenance, since it would have cost them much less
>than making the transition.

See
https://lists.linuxaudio.org/pipermail/linux-audio-dev/2017-December/036974.html

The author "learned to be very selective" when he chose FLOSS software.

We FLOSS users can't blame upstream, since "warranty" is mentioned more
than one time by https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.en.html , let
alone that python does use a custom license,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Python_Software_Foundation_License .

Using FLOSS requires self-responsibility. Maintainers of a Linux or BSD
"ecosystem" such as Ubuntu need to make decisions.

While I'm against snappy and Co., the benefit of snappy and Co. is
working around some issues of the shared software approach.