On Mon, 2011-08-08 at 23:50 +0200, Piotr Ożarowski wrote: > We discussed /usr/bin/python2 symlink issue shortly and we all agreed > that we don't want Debian to use it (should helpers change shebangs back > to /usr/bin/python? Should lintian warn about it?) although we might > want to ship it with Wheezy to follow other distributions³. > > /usr/bin/python will point to Python 2 in Debian for a while (Wheezy and > Wheezy+1 for sure). /usr/bin/python3 might point to python3.3 instead of > 3.2, though. Python 3.3 should be released short after Wheezy freeze, > but we'll have RC releases in unstable before the freeze and it could be > possible to replace 3.2 with 3.3 in supported Python 3 versions (but > that's something we'll consider later, after checking how much work is > needed for the transition).
Why not make Python 2 point to /usr/bin/python2? Also, which distros have already done this change? OT: Is Arch Linux still insisting on Python 3 pointing to /usr/bin/python by default? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
