[Python-Dev] Support the /usr/bin/python2 symlink upstream

[Piotr Ożarowski]

["Martin v. Löwis", 2011-03-02]
> > I think a PEP would help, but in this case I would request that before
> > the PEP gets written (it can be a really short one!) somebody actually
> > go out and get consensus from a number of important distros. Besides
> > Barry, do we have any representatives of distros here?
> 
> Matthias Klose represents Debian, Dave Malcolm represents Redhat,
> and Dirkjan Ochtman represents Gentoo.

I co-maintain with Matthias a package that provides /usr/bin/python
symlink in Debian and I can confirm that it will always point to Python
2.X. We also do not plan to add /usr/bin/python2 symlink (and I guess
only accepted PEP can change that)
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