How Kali deals with the upcoming Python 2 End-of-Life

Published

2019-12-16 00:00

Collected

2026-07-01 08:43

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id: 64
title: "How Kali deals with the upcoming Python 2 End-of-Life"
source_domain: kali.org
source_url: "https://www.kali.org/blog/python-2-end-of-life/"
published_at: "2019-12-16 00:00"
tags: ["open-source", "python", "kali-linux", "debian", "package-management", "end-of-life"]
phying_url: "https://phying.com/item/64"
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# How Kali deals with the upcoming Python 2 End-of-Life

## Summary

With Debian stripping Python 2 from Testing ahead of the January 2020 end-of-life, Kali must port or lose dependent packages; zenmap has already disappeared and the migration is tracked on GitLab.

## Intelligence Metadata

- **Sources:** kali.org
- **Published:** 2019-12-16 00:00
- **Original:** https://www.kali.org/blog/python-2-end-of-life/
- **Phying News:** https://phying.com/item/64