python 2.7 marked as deprecated and EOL while 2.7.18 RC is available

[Kevin Oberman]

On Thu, Apr 23, 2020 at 1:12 PM ajtiM via freebsd-ports <
freebsd-ports at freebsd.org> wrote:

> On Thu, 23 Apr 2020 21:46:15 +0200
> Kurt Jaeger <pi at freebsd.org> wrote:
>
> > Hi!
> >
> > > I clean almost everything except print/lyx which I am using and I
> > > like it (with latex-beamer). I try to build with Python 3.7 but not
> > > success. I do not now if I am one of the "rare" user or is port
> > > dead.
> >
> > The port is up to date with version 2.3.4.2.
> >
> > Can you try to ask upstream ? In their bugtracker ?
> >
> > https://www.lyx.org/trac/wiki/BugTrackerHome
> >
> > There's a closed bug that tracked this topic:
> >
> > https://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/9006
> >
> > and it says that lyx after 2.3.0 should work with py3.
> >
>
> It was solved long time ago but we have:
>
>
> Build dependencies:
>
>         update-desktop-database : devel/desktop-file-utils
>         gmake : devel/gmake
>         pkgconf>=1.3.0_1 : devel/pkgconf
>         python2.7 : lang/python27
>         msgfmt : devel/gettext-tools
>         autoconf>=2.69 : devel/autoconf
>         automake>=1.16.1 : devel/automake
>         perl5>=5.30.r1<5.31 : lang/perl5.30
>         moc : devel/qt5-buildtools
>         qmake : devel/qt5-qmake
>         xcb.pc : x11/libxcb
>
> Runtime dependencies:
>
>         update-desktop-database : devel/desktop-file-utils
>         python2.7 : lang/python27
>         perl5>=5.30.r1<5.31 : lang/perl5.30
>         xcb.pc : x11/libxcb
>
>
>
> --
> Ernst Lubitsch’s Ninotchka:
>

Edit the Makefile, deleting :2.7 after python from the USES= lines. If that
works, please open a ticket for this so the port can be fixed to use
python3.
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