Re: Updated PEP 394 (python and python2 commands)

[Matthias Klose <doko@debian.org>]

sorry, I never replied to that email.

On 10.06.2018 13:59, Piotr Ożarowski wrote:
> [Matthias Klose, 2018-06-08]
>> from my point of view this doesn't address:
>>
>>  - being able to de-install the python command for buster, if
>>    people don't use it.  Most dependencies are auto-generated, so
>>    these could be replaced by dependencies on python2. I would
>>    assume that the majority of users won't have to install the
>>    python package anymore, unless they are doing python2
>>    development.
> 
> how about generating dependencies on python2.7 and moving
> pycompile/pyclean there as well (this also solves pre-dependency issue)
> 
>>  - Not having a python package in bullseye (buster+1), but a
>>    python2 package doesn't point to any "default" anymore. Many
>>    users are installing just python, because it's the unversioned
>>    package.  So make it clear that this is another version, and
>>    with having the choice of python2 and python3, most users will
>>    install python3.
> 
> same here
> 
> additional question: why do you need for all that python2-doc,
> python2-minimal, python2-dev, libpython2-dev, libpython2-stdlib,
> python2-dbg and libpython2-dbg binary packages?

yes, moving the symlinks to the 2.7 packages would be an option as well.  But I
don't see any difference why one or the other should be the preferred option.