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This is how Debian is trying to deal with this: https://salsa.debian.org/python-team/tools/dh-python/-/merge_requests/21 https://salsa.debian.org/python-team/to

• mistrial9 5y ago
  could the Debian/Ubuntu python people stop purposefully damaging the working, useful Python 2.7, please?
  • alvarlagerlof 5y ago
    Dead
  • andrewshadura 5y ago
    Python 2 is dead.
  • klysm 5y ago
    It’s EOL, it would arguably harmful of Debian/Ubuntu to try to support anything to do with it
  • Too 5y ago
    If you want to freeze the universe, just freeze all of it, it's easier than ever to keep running Ubuntu 12.04 forever in a Docker image if you need to. Obviously this is a terrible idea for security and compatibility with newer tools, just don't expect the rest of the world to do double maintenance to keep old versions semi-up-to-date-where-i-want-to-yet-not-updated-where-i-dont.