I am in agreement with the replacement. The symlink was a suggestion if for some reason people want to have both available.
On Thursday, November 15, 2018, Stuart Henderson <s...@spacehopper.org> wrote: > On 2018/11/15 09:58, Edward Lopez-Acosta wrote: >> Daniel your update builds and runs fine for me on amd64. >> >> Two notes though: >> >> Current version is now 3.7.1, I tested and same patches apply to this >> version. >> >> Second is if we have side by side installs then /usr/local/bin/python3 >> should be a symlink to the users preferred version. Not owned by a package, >> same for pip. We can likely solve this by a post install message for the >> user. > > With the current setup some scripts rely on "#!/usr/bin/env python3" working > and in that case /usr/local/bin/python3 *has* to be owned by the package, > otherwise dependencies on python libraries get messed up. > > Unless there's a *very* good reason not to I'd recommend replacing 3.6 with > 3.7 rather than having the two in parallel. > >