> Do you seriously think if there is a security bug found today Debian maintainers will be like "ah, though luck, I suppose people need to upgrade to py3"?..
> During DebConf19 we¹ have tried to figure out how to manage Python 2 and PyPy module removal from Debian and below is our proposal. [0]
Debian are in the midst of a large project [1] to remove Python 2 as quickly as they possibly can. Whilst some bugfixes may happen, Debian are already telling you in no uncertain terms:
> During DebConf19 we¹ have tried to figure out how to manage Python 2 and PyPy module removal from Debian and below is our proposal. [0]
Debian are in the midst of a large project [1] to remove Python 2 as quickly as they possibly can. Whilst some bugfixes may happen, Debian are already telling you in no uncertain terms:
> port upstream package to python3
> remove any Python 2 use
[0] https://lists.debian.org/debian-python/2019/07/msg00080.html
[1] https://wiki.debian.org/Python/2Removal