Re: Program shebang line with specific ‘/usr/bin/pythonX.Y’ interpreter (was: Bug#635476: current packaging work for Coverage)
On Oct 10, 2013, at 10:04 PM, Ben Finney wrote:
>I don't know the rationale for that dichotomy – only ‘/usr/bin/python’
>or ‘/usr/bin/pythonX.Y’ – but I also don't know why you recommend
>against it. What is your reason for wanting that policy changed?
It doesn't make sense to me to recommend /usr/bin/python and not allow
/usr/bin/python3. "/usr/bin/python" is today's way of specifying a generic
Python 2 interpreter, so why should the way to spell a generic Python 3
interpreter also be allowed?
-Barry
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