Hi, Konrad Hinsen <konrad.hin...@fastmail.net> skribis:
> On 14/03/2018 12:39, Hartmut Goebel wrote: >> Am 13.03.2018 um 22:52 schrieb Ludovic Courtès: >>> 2. Use different package names when we know things can be >>> parallel-installed: “python2” vs. “python” (I’m talking about the >>> package name, not its version string.) That’s what distros usually >>> do, and I think it’s good enough. >> >> I'd prefer this. > > That sounds like a good basis. But perhaps "python" for Python 2 and > "python3" for Python 3 would make more sense, since those are the > names of the executables. Yes. OTOH we use the “python2-” prefix for 2.x packages and “python-” for 3.x packages. At any rate, that’s a change we should do now in ‘core-updates’. Ricardo? > This does of course raise the question of how this will evolve in the > long run, but since so many bad decisions were already taken, I am not > trying to guess what will happen. For now, the upstream recommendation > remains to use "python" and "python3" to distinguish the > executables. But what will happen in 2020? The Python community might > be tempted to change the naming to mark the end of Python 2 support, > but that would be at the price of another round of breaking > everybody's scripts. Not our business I’d say. :-) Ludo’.
