On Aug 7, 2017, at 20:52, Ben Finney <bign...@debian.org> wrote: > > So IMO the conservative assumption is that they expect Debian to provide > the stability it is famous for, and not to break the behaviour of > commands unnecessarily.
There’s another dimension to that too: it’s people who expect no changes to the command called /usr/bin/python *and* want to track the latest and greatest Debian releases. Maybe that changes the equation and maybe not. Certainly any large organization with tons of Python 2 laying around is going to be much more conservative about upgrading their entire distro than individual developers who just use unstable and get whatever today’s snapshot looks like. And to reiterate, I’m not arguing that /usr/bin/python change today or even at the end of Pycon 2020 when 2.7 is officially EOL’d. I’m saying that it *will* change some day and that we should plan that change, if for no other reason than to set the expectations of exactly those folks who are not part of this conversation. Cheers, -Barry
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