From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-5.2 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS, USER_AGENT_SANE_1 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C1F5C48BC2 for ; Wed, 23 Jun 2021 20:25:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2512760E0C for ; Wed, 23 Jun 2021 20:25:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S229886AbhFWU1u (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Jun 2021 16:27:50 -0400 Received: from jabberwock.ucw.cz ([46.255.230.98]:36406 "EHLO jabberwock.ucw.cz" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S229688AbhFWU1s (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Jun 2021 16:27:48 -0400 Received: by jabberwock.ucw.cz (Postfix, from userid 1017) id EABFD1C0B76; Wed, 23 Jun 2021 22:25:29 +0200 (CEST) Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2021 22:25:29 +0200 From: Pavel Machek To: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org, Andy Shevchenko , Masahiro Yamada Subject: Re: [PATCH 4.19 425/425] scripts: switch explicitly to Python 3 Message-ID: <20210623202529.GG8540@amd> References: <20210520092131.308959589@linuxfoundation.org> <20210520092145.369052506@linuxfoundation.org> <20210520203625.GA6187@amd> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="0qt3EE9wi45a2ZFX" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --0qt3EE9wi45a2ZFX Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri 2021-05-21 06:37:00, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > On Fri, May 21, 2021 at 06:36:18AM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > > On Thu, May 20, 2021 at 10:36:26PM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote: > > > Hi! > > >=20 > > > > From: Andy Shevchenko > > > >=20 > > > > commit 51839e29cb5954470ea4db7236ef8c3d77a6e0bb upstream. > > > >=20 > > > > 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. > > >=20 > > > I'd say this is unsuitable for -stable. > > >=20 > > > Old distributions may not have python3 installed, and we should not > > > change this dependency in the middle of the series. > >=20 > > What distro that was released in 2017 (the year 4.14.0 was released) did > > not have python3 on it? >=20 > oops, I meant 2018, when 4.19.0 was out, wrong tree... In anything yocto-based, for example, you explicitely select which packages you want. And changing dependencies in middle of stable release is surprising and against our documentation. Best regards, Pavel --=20 http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek --0qt3EE9wi45a2ZFX Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iEYEARECAAYFAmDTmLkACgkQMOfwapXb+vJVbACeMwxIVQcVq+g77yLg9aJHEuww zScAn3YOTP94NukwBlTBhC5eVZfLvu0F =epBE -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --0qt3EE9wi45a2ZFX--