Re: /usr/bin/python3 deprecation and enforcing /usr/bin/python

[Jeremy Stanley <fungi@yuggoth.org>]

On 2025-11-12 10:49:08 -0500 (-0500), Antoine Beaupré wrote:
[...]
> I've been wondering whether it's time we finally make this 
> change. Concretely, I think it means:
>
> 1. deprecating /usr/bin/python3
> 2. shipping Python 3 as /usr/bin/python directly
>
> I think we should do this for Debian 14 (forky), and stop shipping 
> python3 altogether in Debian 15 (?).
[...]

I can understand the need for #2, but I don't see why you'd ever do 
#1. For that matter, the python3 link is still included by upstream 
Cpython when doing a `make install` or in a stdlib-created venv. 
Lots of user-written scripts use python3 in their shebangs. It's not 
harming anything simply by existing, so why deprecate something that 
can't/shouldn't be removed?
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Jeremy Stanley

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