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From: Santiago Vila <sanvila@debian.org>
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Subject: Re: /usr/bin/python3 deprecation and enforcing /usr/bin/python
Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2025 17:20:01 +0100
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On Wed, Nov 12, 2025 at 10:49:08AM -0500, Antoine Beaupré wrote:

> I think we should do this for Debian 14 (forky), and stop shipping
> python3 altogether in Debian 15 (?).
> 
> Thoughts?

If possible, please make the transition to be smooth
(i.e. not another gcc-15 or CMake 4).

Thanks.