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Re: /usr/bin/python3 deprecation and enforcing /usr/bin/python

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Subject	Re: /usr/bin/python3 deprecation and enforcing /usr/bin/python
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And using those when they are there

For example moving usage of

    /usr/bin/py.test + /usr/bin/py.test-3 + /usr/bin/pytest-3

to

    /usr/bin/pytest

Sometimes it's juste dropping a patch that did it the other way around
years before.

Greetings

Le jeu. 13 nov. 2025 à 17:21, Andrey Rakhmatullin <wrar@debian.org> a écrit :
>
> Related, is it time to reintroduce executables without a "3" suffix
> (things like ipython)?
>
> --
> WBR, wRAR

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