doc: announce python 2 support removal

Now that Python 2 is officially not maintained anymore, prepare the
removal of support in DPDK.

Add a deprecation notice indicating the removal schedule.

Signed-off-by: Robin Jarry <robin.jarry@6wind.com>
Acked-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
Acked-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
Acked-by: Kevin Traynor <ktraynor@redhat.com>
Acked-by: David Marchand <david.marchand@redhat.com>

diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
index 0b5d90f..1339f54 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
@@ -112,3 +112,9 @@ Deprecation Notices
   to set new power environment if power environment was already initialized.
   In this case the function will return -1 unless the environment is unset first
   (using ``rte_power_unset_env``). Other function usage scenarios will not change.
+
+* python: Since the beginning of 2020, Python 2 has officially reached
+  end-of-support: https://www.python.org/doc/sunset-python-2/.
+  Python 2 support will be completely removed in 20.11.
+  In 20.08, explicit deprecation warnings will be displayed when running
+  scripts with Python 2.