From: Andrew Burgess <aburgess@redhat.com>
Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2022 13:42:16 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: gdb: announce upcoming removal of Python 2 support from gdb
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gdb: announce upcoming removal of Python 2 support from gdb

As has been discussed here:

  https://sourceware.org/pipermail/gdb-patches/2022-January/184910.html

Python 2 support will be removed from GDB after GDB 12 has branched.
This commit places an entry in the NEWS file to inform users of this
decision.
---

diff --git a/gdb/NEWS b/gdb/NEWS
index cf1e084fed6..4d282cb37dd 100644
--- a/gdb/NEWS
+++ b/gdb/NEWS
@@ -5,6 +5,10 @@
 
 * DBX mode is deprecated, and will be removed in GDB 13
 
+* GDB 12 is the last release of GDB that will support building against
+  Python 2.  From GDB 13, it will only be possible to build GDB itself
+  with Python 3 support.
+
 * Improved C++ template support
 
   GDB now treats functions/types involving C++ templates like it does function