Re: Removing lang/python26

[Tobias Nygren <tnn%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On Fri, 3 Apr 2015 12:43:30 -0400
rodent%NetBSD.org@localhost wrote:

> > Removal proposals should explain what what's officially EOL and actually
> > unmaintained and for how long, will be lost, and what the positive
> > effects on maintenance issues will be.  (I have not noticed any real
> > pain from python26 still being in pkgsrc.)
> 
> python26 was EOL'd in 2013Q4. $X py26 packages will be lost. Maintenance will
> be easier due to having fewer packages to maintain and not backporting fixes to
> packages which might never be fixed upstream. Fewer breaks in bulk builds due
> to upstream dropping support for py26 (sometimes, this is not documented).
> etc. etc.

Technical merits and drawbacks aside, do we expect we have any users
that still set PYTHON_VERSION_DEFAULT=26 and what would their reason for
doing so be? I don't know how big a difference 2.6 vs 2.7 is but if the
answer to this question is "no", then there's no point to discuss
technicalities further. Freeze aside, nobody objected on this thread
for two weeks. Personally I think that is plenty of heads-up.