On February 18, 2018 4:38:01 AM UTC, Daniel Kahn Gillmor <d...@fifthhorseman.net> wrote: >Hey folks-- > >a lot of work has been done to make debian python3 friendly. thanks >for >that! > >I'm wondering whether there are any plans to encourage conversion of >/usr/bin/python to point to python3? > >PEP 394 recommends that any shebang line that says /usr/bin/python >should work with both python2 and python3: > > https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0394/#recommendation > >I've opened a bug against a python2-only package for it to ship with an >explicitly "python2" shebang line: > > https://bugs.debian.org/890282 > >Should we be doing this kind of request more widely across the archive? >are there debbugs usertags to track these suggestions? Has anyone >tried >to force /usr/bin/python to point to python3 on debian?
Switching /usr/bin/python to point at python3 won't happen before python2 is removed from the archive. I wouldn't worry about it. Scott K _______________________________________________ py3porters-devel mailing list py3porters-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org https://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/py3porters-devel
