[$] Linux distributions and Python 2

Python 2.7 will reach its
end of life in less than two years—at least for the core development
team.
Linux distributions need to figure out
how to handle the transition given that many of their users are still using
that version of the language—and may still be well beyond the end-of-life
date. Petr Viktorin and Matthias Klose led a session at the 2018 Python
Language Summit to discuss distributions' approaches to deprecating
Python 2.