Python 4 and ‘python3’ (was: /usr/bin/python2 shebangs)

[Ben Finney <bignose@debian.org>]

Donald Stufft <donald@stufft.io> writes:

> /usr/bin/python3 being Python 4.x is a bit weird though

Seriously? Who is proposing that?

> and it’s likely that Python 4.x is not going to be another break the
> world release.

Certainly the command ‘python3’ should only ever point to the Python 3
interpreter.

If upstream ever releases a “Python 4” but expects the interpreter for
that to also be named ‘python3’, I think we can declare upstream to be
directly courting user pain, and secede on behalf of our users.

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Ben Finney