python2 removal

[marco atzeri]

On Wed, Mar 15, 2023 at 1:56 PM Brian Inglis via Cygwin-apps  wrote:
>
> On 2023-03-14 13:17, Jon Turney via Cygwin-apps wrote:
> > On 15/01/2023 12:52, Jon Turney via Cygwin-apps wrote:
> >>
> >> This has come up in discussion a few times, and is now well overdue, I think.
> >>
> >> Python 2.7 is the last python2 version, which was sunsetted on January 1, 2020.
> >>
> > [...]
> >>
> >> 3) There might also still be some other packages lurking which just install a
> >> script with a shebang containing 'python', and assume that python is python2.
> >> I don't know how we could identify those.
> >
> > The remaining cases of packages which have a dependency on python and/or python2
> > are either this (packages which contain a python script with a python shebang
> > line), or the other case which I hadn't previously considered - a package which
> > contain an executable or shared library linked with libpython2.7.dll.
> >
> > So, again I need inspect these to determine what should happen to them.
>
> Add:
>
> $ apt-cyg category Python | grep -iv python | xargs apt-cyg listall | awk '...'

Is apt-cyg an "official" tool now
:-?

> scons                   4.4.0-1                         x86_64

scons is already built for 3.9