[Slackbuilds-users] python-certifi and python3-certifi

[Benjamin Trigona-Harany]

On Saturday, 2 January 2021 19:57:05 CET B Watson wrote:
> On 1/2/21, Benjamin Trigona-Harany <slackbuilds at jaxartes.net> wrote:
> > python-certifi now has Python 3 as a mandatory dependency, which makes
> > python3-cetifi unnecessary. I'll be removing python3-certifi, so
> > maintainers
> Is is still going to support python 2, or did upstream drop python 2
> support? If it's become python 3 only, it's going to break some or all
> of these builds:
> 
> https://slackbuilds.org/advsearch.php?stype=revdep&q=python-certifi
> 
> If that's going to be a problem, maybe there should be a new
> python2-certifi or python-certifi-legacy build, with the last version
> that supports python 2.
> 
> If it's not a problem, no problem, forget I said anything...

The python-certi SlackBuild installs the module for both Python 2 and Python 
3. Whether upstream has dropped support for Python 2, I can't say ... I only 
deal in Python 3 :)

Ben