Re: Python 3 BoF at DebConf11
On Mon, 2011-08-08 at 23:50 +0200, Piotr Ożarowski wrote:
> We discussed /usr/bin/python2 symlink issue shortly and we all agreed
> that we don't want Debian to use it (should helpers change shebangs back
> to /usr/bin/python? Should lintian warn about it?) although we might
> want to ship it with Wheezy to follow other distributions³.
>
> /usr/bin/python will point to Python 2 in Debian for a while (Wheezy and
> Wheezy+1 for sure). /usr/bin/python3 might point to python3.3 instead of
> 3.2, though. Python 3.3 should be released short after Wheezy freeze,
> but we'll have RC releases in unstable before the freeze and it could be
> possible to replace 3.2 with 3.3 in supported Python 3 versions (but
> that's something we'll consider later, after checking how much work is
> needed for the transition).
Why not make Python 2 point to /usr/bin/python2? Also, which distros
have already done this change?
OT: Is Arch Linux still insisting on Python 3 pointing
to /usr/bin/python by default?
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