On 18. 01. 21 10:01, Miroslav Suchý wrote:
Dne 16. 01. 21 v 8:50 Miro Hrončok napsal(a):
My point here is that I want to keep Python 2 much longer (for developers who unfortunately still need to support it, e.g. for RHEL 7) than I'd like to keep allowing packages to buiid with it.
"Developers who unfortunately still need to support it" - they will need to build their packages. If you remove those macros, you will make their life harder. This is not about Fedora developers, but about 3rd party developers who built their projects on top of Fedora.
Note that we don't want to support building Python 2 RPM packages any more, same as we don't support building Python 3.6 or 3.7 packages. We support the alternate Python versions for developers to be able to develop on and test on them, we do not support actually running applications or deploying stuff.
If there are others who'd like to support Python 2 in Fedora, speak up.
(I am actually leaning towards keeping the macros when I see the feedback, just trying to explain our motivation.)