[packagekit] Time to update to python3?

[Anders F Björklund]

Richard Hughes wrote:

> Hey all,
> 
> I've been asked to look at switching PackageKit to use python3 in
> Fedora. So far, the python backends seem to be:
> 
> * apt
> * conary
> * pisi
> * smart
> * yum
> 
> Yum is going to stay python2 as it's being slowly retired, so that's
> not so important, but I wondered how the other backends would deal
> with PackageKit switching to python3? Comments welcome. Thanks.

Smart is available in a python3 fork, but no-one is using it.
It is not compatible with the original 2.3-2.7 version, either.

So if PackageKit switched to python3, you should remove the
Smart backend as it requires python and will remain doing so...

--anders