"pkg annotate -a -S deprecated" says:

firefox-78.0_2,1: Tag: deprecated Value: Uses Python 2.7 which is EOLed upstream

Indeed, installing firefox emits a NOTICE that one should reconsider
using it because it (allegedly) uses Python 2.7.

* Sources found via Google say Python 2.7 was indeed EOLed 1/1/2020, so
I believe that part.

* However, I find no reference to python27 in the dependencies.

* Actually installing firefox does not install python27.

* Also, it doesn't look like "2.7" in the warning message is a typo for
"3.7" because related sources say: "Python 3.7: security fixes AND bug
fixes will be provided; End Of Life: 2023-06-27".

So, what's going on?

I iteratively did "pkg rquery %dn" on firefox and its dependencies until
I ran out of new ones. In addition to the expected python37, I found
128 other packages, from adwaita-icon-theme to xvid (alphabetically),
but no mention of python27. Furthermore, as I said above, installing
firefox does not install python27.

So, where is this complaint about python27 coming from?

Curious,
-WBE

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* Winston <wbe@ubeblock.psr.com.invalid>:

* Actually installing firefox does not install python27.

Elaborating on this one, there are different kinds of dependencies, and
one of them is a "build dependency", which means some software is needed
to build another software, but it isn't needed at runtime.

As for python27 in general, yes, it's EOL, and unfortunately, a lot of
other software still depends on it and python3 isn't a "drop in"
replacement. Work has to be done to move away from the deprecated python version. For a software as widely used as firefox, I'm pretty sure it
will be solved in time. FreeBSD *will* of course remove python27 and all packages still depeding on it in time, as unsupported software is an uncalculable risk. Other (Linux?) distributions packaging firefox will
have the same problem.

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On 2020-07-07, Winston <wbe@UBEBLOCK.psr.com.invalid> wrote:

firefox-78.0_2,1: Tag: deprecated Value: Uses Python 2.7 which is EOLed upstream

So, where is this complaint about python27 coming from?

It's a build dependency via bsd.gecko.mk.

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On Tue, 7 Jul 2020 22:47:25 +0200, Felix Palmen wrote:

* Winston <wbe@ubeblock.psr.com.invalid>:

* Actually installing firefox does not install python27.

Elaborating on this one, there are different kinds of dependencies, and
one of them is a "build dependency", which means some software is needed
to build another software, but it isn't needed at runtime.

As for python27 in general, yes, it's EOL, and unfortunately, a lot of
other software still depends on it and python3 isn't a "drop in"
replacement.

Quite true. I kept getting the warning each day to Charley Root, and I uninstalled it without any issues that I knew of - - - - until the next
time I ran `getmail`. Sure enough, it's a depends for `getmail`.
So, I re-installed python27.
I have found nothing out of the `getmail` universe v-a-v the EOL of python27.

Jonesy
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I previously asked why firefox complains about python27 EOL since ...

* Actually installing firefox does not install python27.

to which felix@palmen-it.de (Felix Palmen) kindly replied:

Elaborating on this one, there are different kinds of dependencies,
and one of them is a "build dependency", which means some software is
needed to build another software, but it isn't needed at runtime.

Ah, thank you for explaining that! I would not have guessed that build dependencies would be retained as part of a pkg repository item.
-WBE

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