Re: qt5-webengine and py27 ?

Hi Mike,

Python 2.7 is a build dependency of this port.  It is needed AFAIK
as a part of the webkit build system.

Yours,
Robert Clausecker

Am Fri, Nov 19, 2021 at 03:34:03PM +0000 schrieb Mike Clarke:
> I'm getting seriously confused about packages with dependency on py27.
> 
> Daily periodic reports from pkg-audit report 39 deprecated packages which use EOL Python 
> 2.7, most of them via www/qt5-webengine. For example:
> 
> "kmail-21.08.3: Tag: deprecated Value: Uses EOL Python 2.7 via www/qt5-webengine"
> 
> ...and
> 
> "qt5-webengine-5.15.2_5: Tag: deprecated Value: Uses Python 2.7 which is EOLed 
> upstream"
> 
> But qt5-webengine does not appear to depend on py27
> 
> curlew:/home/mike% pkg info -d qt5-webengine-5.15.2_5 | grep -c py27 
> 0
> Furthermore I don't appear to have any py27 packages in my system
> 
> curlew:/home/mike% pkg info -x py27 
> pkg: No package(s) matching py27
> 
> Most of the deprecated packages are KDE related so if they had a dependency on py27 I 
> would expect lots of problems with KDE and that's not happening.
> 
> So what am I missing?
> 
> -- 
> Mike Clarke

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