Drop support for sunset Pythons (3.5 and earlier).

Author: jaraco

.gitlab-ci.yml

@@ -13,11 +13,11 @@ qa:
 
 tests:
   script:
-    - tox -e py27,py35,py36,py37,py38
+    - tox -e py36,py37,py38
 
 coverage:
   script:
-    - tox -e py27-cov,py35-cov,py36-cov,py37-cov,py38-cov
+    - tox -e py36-cov,py37-cov,py38-cov
   artifacts:
     paths:
       - coverage.xml
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ benchmark:
 
 diffcov:
   script:
-    - tox -e py27-diffcov,py35-diffcov,py36-diffcov,py37-diffcov,py38-diffcov
+    - tox -e py36-diffcov,py37-diffcov,py38-diffcov
 
 docs:
   script:

docs/changelog.rst

@@ -2,6 +2,11 @@
  importlib_metadata NEWS
 =========================
 
+v3.0.0
+======
+
+* Require Python 3.6 or later.
+
 v2.0.0
 ======
 

setup.cfg

@@ -12,16 +12,12 @@ classifiers =
     License :: OSI Approved :: Apache Software License
     Topic :: Software Development :: Libraries
     Programming Language :: Python :: 3
-    Programming Language :: Python :: 2
 
 [options]
-python_requires = >=2.7,!=3.0.*,!=3.1.*,!=3.2.*,!=3.3.*,!=3.4.*
+python_requires = >=3.6
 setup_requires = setuptools-scm
 install_requires =
     zipp>=0.5
-    pathlib2; python_version < '3'
-    contextlib2; python_version < '3'
-    configparser>=3.5; python_version < '3'
 packages = importlib_metadata
 
 [mypy]