From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jonathan Corbet Date: Mon, 01 Feb 2021 21:21:48 +0000 Subject: Re: [PATCH] kbuild: remove PYTHON variable Message-Id: <87czxjv5zn.fsf@meer.lwn.net> List-Id: References: <20210201010024.654526-1-masahiroy@kernel.org> <87r1lzvj3q.fsf@meer.lwn.net> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Masahiro Yamada Cc: Linux Kbuild mailing list , "open list:DOCUMENTATION" , Fenghua Yu , Michal Marek , Tony Luck , linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, Linux Kernel Mailing List Masahiro Yamada writes: > On Tue, Feb 2, 2021 at 1:38 AM Jonathan Corbet wrote: >> So this will have the effect of making the docs build impossible for >> folks who only have Python 2. > > Is this a problem? Python 2 is EOL. > > Everybody who wants to use Python > must install Python 3. I honestly don't know, but people do keep things around for a surprisingly long time. >> As I said before, this is a step that we >> knew was coming, we just hadn't decided on the exact timing - I guess >> this decides for us :) >> >> That said, I'll copy linux-doc to see if anybody screams. I assume this >> is a 5.12 change? > > No, I am planning to do this for 5.11 > (a pull request this week if there is no objection). I'm not going to truly object and try to block this, but I worry that it's soon and without warning. It's not a change I would merge for -rc7. IMO this should be done in 5.12 with an appropriate note added to Documentation/process/changes.rst as well. Thanks, jon