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

[Sandro Tosi]

On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 13:56, Piotr Ożarowski <piotr at debian.org> wrote:
> [Sandro Tosi, 2011-03-02]
>> On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 10:01, Piotr Ożarowski <piotr at debian.org> wrote:
>> > 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)
>>
>> Can you please explain why you NACK this proposed change?
>
> it encourages people to change /usr/bin/python symlink to point to
> python3.X which I'm strongly against (how can I tell that upstream
> author meant python3.X and not python2.X without checking the code?)

with 'people' do you mean 'users'? if so, isn't this risk already present?

If you, user, change the python symlink (provided by python-minimal in
Debian) to something else than what's shipped, it's still a local
change, and will never be supported; but with python2 *Debian is free*
to decide if python can be pointed to python3, if the time will come.

Regards,
-- 
Sandro Tosi (aka morph, morpheus, matrixhasu)
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