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

[ajtiM]

On Sat, 25 Apr 2020 16:21:25 -0700 (PDT)
Roger Marquis <marquis at roble.com> wrote:

> Kurt Jaeger wrote:
> > I prepared a patch to build lyx without the 2.7 restriction. The
> > patch needs a run-test, can you test and report back ?
> 
> Has anyone enumerated the ports and applications which don't work with
> python{,2,2.7} symlinked from pypy?  Mailman seems fine but fail2ban
> does not start, at least not when it was installed using the original
> python2.7 port.  One heads-up is that pypy can take more than an hour
> to compile (on x86_64).  The build relies on a single python2 thread
> which eventually utilizes over 5GB RAM.
> 
> Roger

I didn't mark but there are patch for Inkscape:
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=243615

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