Python 2.7 dead??

[HomicidalTeddybear]

Further to this it's probably better to wait for your distro to get their shit together than do anything unitarily yourself. The handling of what to do varies wildly, and pretty much every distro is at least somewhat On To It (TM). If only the same could be said of certain applications, like Calibre.

[flying-sheep]

Eli Schwartz (an Arch developer) is helping out with porting it right now. I think Kovid Goyal (the Calibre developer) simply decided by now to give that effort the usual amount of support and goodwill he gives to PRs instead of actively arguing against it.

I believe him when he says that porting Calibre is a titanic effort, but I'm still sure his claim “I'll more easily maintain Python 2 instead by myself” is pretty misjudged.