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

[Piotr Ożarowski]

[Allan McRae, 2011-03-02]
> But is that not the whole point of adding the /usr/bin/python2 symlink.  
> That way a developer can explicitly use a /usr/bin/python2 or  
> /usr/bin/python3 shebang and have it portable everywhere.  At the moment, 
> Debian seems to be the major hold-up on that actually being a reality 
> being the only major distro I could find that does not provide such a 
> symlink.

Do you realize how many (still perfectly usable) scripts written in
Python 2.x few years ago (and not modified since then) are out there?
Do you realize how much work would it require to fix every single one
of them to point to /usr/bin/python2 instead? Even if we'd start checking
mdate and change it at build time automatically, there still will be way
too many false positives... for no clear gain.
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