[jira] [Created] (ARROW-16747) [CI][Release][Python] Drop support for manylinux 2010

["Raúl Cumplido (Jira)" <ji...@apache.org>]

Raúl Cumplido created ARROW-16747:
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             Summary: [CI][Release][Python] Drop support for manylinux 2010
                 Key: ARROW-16747
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-16747
             Project: Apache Arrow
          Issue Type: Task
          Components: Continuous Integration, Python
            Reporter: Raúl Cumplido
             Fix For: 9.0.0


There seemed to be consensus on this mailing list thread to drop support for Manylinux 2010.

[https://lists.apache.org/thread/dfsvcsmrmktgnqz9fyc9ym33zldwklyx]

This ticket is to track it. The following was the main rationale to do it copied from the mail:

CentoOS 6, on which the manylinux2010 image is based, has been EOL for over
two years [1].
There is now also an official announcement by pypa that
manylinux2010 support will be dropped sometime in 2022 [2] that has not
received any feedback on either Github or Discourse. Since the announcement
the percentage of affected users has dropped from ~7% to ~4% of Python 3.7
users [3]. ~52% of pyarrow users are on 3.7 so only ~2% of pyarrow users
[4] would potentially be affected by an issue fixed by updating pip [5].

We have already had several CI issues with the manylinux2010 builds that
required workarounds. There are now also issues with verification as there
are no aarch64 wheels for manylinux2010 [6].

[1]: [https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata/#Life_Cycle_Dates] 
[2]: [https://github.com/pypa/manylinux/issues/1281] 
[3]: [https://mayeut.github.io/manylinux-timeline/] 
[4]: [https://pypistats.org/packages/pyarrow] 
[5]: [https://pip.pypa.io/en/stable/news/#v19-3] 
[6]: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-16476 

 



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