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 cf1e084fed68e18f895deaeeb27c9a82aa698aa1..4d282cb37dd56c33ac3bbf82e68481610f1c8469 100644 (file)
--- 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