Alright, I obviously haven't convinced anybody, so I'll drop it. We'll let the PEP 394 bug reports speak for themselves <wink>. But the responses I've read so far make me think I probably wasn't clear in what I am proposing. On Jul 25, 2013, at 12:09 AM, Piotr Ożarowski wrote: >and you want to force an administrator who has a service using Python 2.X >with lots of scripts with /usr/bin/python shebang to do additional work? Of course not. I'm not proposing that that administrators or really any*body* has to do anything different, or even make any changes to their stuff. I'm specifically suggesting that when dh_python2 rewrites shebang lines, it use /usr/bin/python2 instead of /usr/bin/python, i.e. when --no-shebang-rewrite or --shebang=COMMAND is *not* given. What does this mean? Upstreams don't have to change anything. Developers and maintainers don't have to change anything. Admins don't have to change the shebang lines on their one-off scripts. No person has to change a thing[1]. It only means that when dh_python2 installs a script *on Debian systems with a new enough dh_python2*, the rewritten shebang line would be /usr/bin/python2. Nothing would happen on Wheezy for example. Maybe I'm being dense, but I just don't see how that's at all risky. But as I said, I won't push it. -Barry [1] Well, Piotr would have to change one or two lines in debpython/tools.py :)
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