Re: Program shebang line with specific ‘/usr/bin/pythonX.Y’ interpreter

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Subject: Re: Program shebang line with specific ‘/usr/bin/pythonX.Y’ interpreter
From: Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au>
Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2013 09:40:47 +1100
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Scott Kitterman <debian@kitterman.com> writes:

> The reason is that it simplifies moving to a new default
> python/python3 version and removing the old one.

Fair enough. That will need to be changed in the Debhelper and
Distribute tools for Python, though, as this package isn't doing
anything (AFAIK) to affect the default behaviour for the shebang.

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Ben Finney

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References:
- Re: Bug#635476: current packaging work for Coverage
  - From: Dmitry Shachnev <mitya57@gmail.com>
- Program shebang line with specific ‘/usr/bin/pythonX.Y’ interpreter (was: Bug#635476: current packaging work for Coverage)
  - From: Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au>
- Re: Program shebang line with specific ‘/usr/bin/pythonX.Y’ interpreter (was: Bug#635476: current packaging work for Coverage)
  - From: Scott Kitterman <debian@kitterman.com>

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