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Re: Bits from the Debian PyCon Hangout - /usr/bin/python



On Wednesday, April 15, 2015 02:16:58 PM Barry Warsaw wrote:
> On Apr 15, 2015, at 12:24 PM, Scott Kitterman wrote:
> >Maybe I'll mellow over time, but currently my thinking is that if there's
> >an upload to point /usr/bin/python at a python3, it will be immediately
> >followed by one where I remove myself from being maintainer. It's an idea
> >that can only cause pain.
> 
> There aren't any plans or even interest in doing that any time soon, so you
> don't get off Scott free (har har, groan) yet.  Let's see what happens in
> 2020 when official upstream support for Python 2.7 ends.

Then I don't understand why the whole s/python/python2// plan in the shebangs 
helps anything.  As long as both exist, it's a no-op.

Scott K

P.S.  It would be nice if there would be a PEP that says to never ever do 
this.  I know it would make Arch have a sad, but they'll get over it.


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