Doesn't https://peps.python.org/pep-0394/ recommend the current status quo anyway?
Distributors may choose to set the behavior of the python command as follows: python2, python3, not provide python command, allow python to be configurable by an end user or a system administrator. When packaging third party Python scripts, distributors are encouraged to change less specific shebangs to more specific ones. This ensures software is used with the latest version of Python available, and it can remove a dependency on Python 2. The details on what specifics to set are left to the distributors; though. Example specifics could include: Changing python shebangs to python3 when Python 3.x is supported. Changing python shebangs to python2 when Python 3.x is not yet supported. Changing python3 shebangs to python3.8 if the software is built with Python 3.8. My preference would be to keep it as is and not merge this change as RP said. If we drop the patches then we go against the recommendation to use more specific shebangs and if we don't drop them then python-is-python3 recipes or package shouldn't be needed. Cheers, On Wed, Jul 24, 2024 at 6:18 PM Alexander Kanavin via lists.openembedded.org <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Wed, 24 Jul 2024 at 18:01, Richard Purdie > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Having listened to the discussions and given this is pretty much a > > solved problem for the majority of our current metadata, I'm in favour > > of maintaining the status quo and not taking this change, even if we > > have to carry a few patches. It does at least make the situation quite > > clear and explicit. > > I'm fine with this. We have significantly bigger issues in oe-core > (e.g. the rust situation where the slide behind upstream is constantly > growing). > > I think the really correct solution is a coordinated effort by common > distributions to convince python upstream to add the symlink directly > in cpython installation. Or make an official statement that it is not > going to happen, which would explicitly mean that scripts *have* to be > written with python3 shebang. > > Alex > > >
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