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 ---- On Tue, 07 Feb 2023 14:33:51 -0800  Jeremy Stanley  wrote --- 
 > On 2023-02-07 09:21:56 -0800 (-0800), Dariusz Smigiel wrote:
 > > Recent change [1] to remove python27 from images caused issues across
 > > jobs still using python 2.7 There are a lot of projects failing due to
 > > that. [2] The solution is to update bindep.txt [3]
 > > The fix was discussed with the #opendev team and can be summarized as
 > > follows. [4]
 > > 
 > > ```
 > > 15:37  I think we have ~3 options: A) revert/or readd
 > > python2-dev installs B) ask projects to fix their broken bindep.txts
 > > (something we've asked for for years at this point) or C) update -py27
 > > jobs to explicitly install python2 for you
 > > ```
 > [...]
 > 
 > We also merged https://review.opendev.org/873020 about twenty
 > minutes ago, so as of 22:12:13 any jobs inheriting from
 > openstack-tox-py27 will automatically install the python and
 > python-dev (old Python 2.7) packages.
 > 
 > But definitely still put Python interpreters in your bindep.txt
 > files, they're useful if for no other reason than to indicate to
 > anyone looking at the file that your project needs those.

+1 on doing it in a central place as we need this job for <=stable/train only
which seems moving toward EOL.

-gmann

 > -- 
 > Jeremy Stanley
 >