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Date:   Fri, 21 May 2021 06:36:17 +0200
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To:     Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc:     linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org,
        Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>,
        Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4.19 425/425] scripts: switch explicitly to Python 3
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On Thu, May 20, 2021 at 10:36:26PM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> > From: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
> > 
> > commit 51839e29cb5954470ea4db7236ef8c3d77a6e0bb upstream.
> > 
> > Some distributions are about to switch to Python 3 support only.
> > This means that /usr/bin/python, which is Python 2, is not available
> > anymore. Hence, switch scripts to use Python 3 explicitly.
> 
> I'd say this is unsuitable for -stable.
> 
> Old distributions may not have python3 installed, and we should not
> change this dependency in the middle of the series.

What distro that was released in 2017 (the year 4.14.0 was released) did
not have python3 on it?

> Python is not listed in Documentation/Changes . Perhaps it should be?

It's not required to build/boot, just these helper scripts.

thanks,

greg k-h