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

[ajtiM]

On Fri, 24 Apr 2020 14:16:15 +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. [...]
> 
> > 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
> 
> I prepared a patch to build lyx without the 2.7 restriction. The
> patch needs a run-test, can you test and report back ?
> 
> https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=245871
> 


Thank you very much. The patch works and Lyx too :).

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