bug#70722: [PATCH] ; Migrate to python3 for (package-test-update-archives-async)

[Lin Sun]

On Thu, May 2, 2024 at 6:55 PM Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>
> > From: Lin Sun <sunlin7.mail@gmail.com>
> > Date: Thu, 2 May 2024 18:11:04 +0000
> >
> > The test case "package-test-update-archives-async" still tries to
> > search "python2" for testing, while python2 was at the end of its life
> > years ago.
> > So move the test case from python2 to python3.
>
> I'd prefer to make the test support both Python 2.x and Python 3.x.
> The fact that python.org end-of-life'd Python 2 doesn't mean we have
> to jump to attention and follow suit.  Old systems might still have
> Python 2 installed, and there's no need to drop them.
>
> I do agree that we should try looking for Python 3 first, and only
> afterwards for Python 2.
>
> Also, I think the test should start by looking for just "python",
> before the versioned variants.
>
> E.g., on my system (executable-find "python3") returns nil, although I
> have Python 3.x installed -- but it's installed under the name
> "python".
Thanks for the comment, and it's true that python2 will still exist
for many years.
And I had changed the test case to adapt python/python3/python2 automatically.
Please help review the new patch. Thanks.

0001-Support-python3-for-package-test-update-archives-asy.patch
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