Analysis of Python 2.7 support in Natty

[Stephan Adig]

On Fri, 2011-02-04 at 01:24 +0100, Krzysztof Klimonda wrote:
> On Thu, 2011-02-03 at 15:56 -0500, Barry Warsaw wrote:
> [...]
> > If necessary, we can solve the LTS upgrade problem similar to the way we
> > solved it for Lucid; we create an official PPA with Python 2.6 and port over
> > the stack required by services such as Launchpad.  3rd parties still requiring
> > Python 2.6, could create their own PPA, dependent on ours, and add whatever
> > packages they need to the former.
> > 
> > Of course, we could also keep Python 2.6 and Python 2.7 until after 12.04.
> > 
> > There seems to be lots of folks both for and against removal of Python 2.6.
> > It's worth discussion here, but we need to make a final decision for Natty by
> > feature freeze later this month.
> 
> I'm on the fence regarding this issue. On one hand I have few issues
> with removal of Python 2.6 from natty. On the other hand, there are good
> reasons to do that.
> 
> I have two main issues with dropping Python 2.6 from natty, or with
> moving it to the official PPA.

I don't think we are dropping Python 2.6 from the archives, I hope it
will just be demoted from Main to Universe, so packages (!main) which
are still depending on 2.6 will build in universe without problems.

Especially thinking about the contributor  vs. time issues in
universe/multiverse.

Regards,

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