[Buildroot] Python 2.7 end of life on January 1, 2020

[Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>]

>>>>> "Thomas" == Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com> writes:

 > Hello,
 > Through a LWN.net article, I recently realized that Python 2.7 will see
 > its end of life on January 1, 2020, according to:

 >   https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0373/

 > You also have a fancy countdown at:

 >   https://pythonclock.org/

 > This means that our 2020.02 LTS release probably should not have Python
 > 2.x anymore ?

Yes, it is too late to change for 2019.02, but 2020.02 should probably
not include it unless somebody else steps up and maintains it when it
goes EOL.

 > If that's our decision, then we should probably discuss the deprecation
 > path we want to follow to strongly warn users that they should migrate
 > away from Python 2.x.

Hasn't that been the published statement by the upstream Python
developers ever since 3.x was released 10 years ago? I am not sure what
else we could/should do, besides perhaps mentioning it in the 2019.02
release notes?

-- 
Bye, Peter Korsgaard