On Mar 03, 2011, at 09:08 AM, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
Thinking outside of the box, I can think of something that would satisfy your requirements but I don't know how appropriate it is for upstream python to ship with. Stop shipping /usr/bin/python. Ship "python" in an alternate location like $LIBEXECDIR/python2.7/bin (I think this would be /usr/lib/python2.7/bin on Debian and /usr/libexec/python2.7/bin on Fedora which would both be appropriate) then configure which python version is invoked by the user typing "python" by configuring PATH (a shell alias might also work). You could configure this with environment-modules[1]_ if Debian supports using that in packaging.
I wonder if Debian's alternatives system would be appropriate for this? http://wiki.debian.org/DebianAlternatives -Barry