Bug#909510: please add a lintian note to inform/warn about python in the shebang (instead of python2/python2.7)

[Chris Lamb <lamby@debian.org>]

Adrian Bunk wrote:

> > There is discussion upstream about updating PEP 394 to recommend soft-linking
> > python to python3 on newer distributions.  Not a good idea from my point of
> > view, but it would be better if we remove the usage of python as a shebang in
> > our packages.  Replacing that with python2 or python2.7 should be easy and safe.
> >  It would be nice if lintian could help with this task. Maybe first as a note so
> > we can get an overview.
> 
> Isn't it too late for such a lintian warning to make sense?
> 
> We are only 5.5 months away from the buster freeze, and there
> is no realistic chance of fixing this archive-wide until then.
> 
> Unless plans have changed python2 will not be part of bullseye,
> and for that to happen removal of any python2 usage has to start
> aggressively directly after the release of buster.
> The lintian warning would be moot then.
> 
> If such an upstream change will be in bullseye or later,
> the realistic solution would be to add a
>   Breaks: python-minimal
>   Replaces: python-minimal
> to python3-minimal.

Any followup to this, Matthias?


Regards,

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