Path: csiph.com!pasdenom.info!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!srl.newsdeef.eu!news.corradoroberto.it!gothmog.csi.it!bofh.it!news.nic.it!robomod From: =?utf-8?Q?Antoine_Beaupr=C3=A9?= Newsgroups: linux.debian.maint.python Subject: /usr/bin/python3 deprecation and enforcing /usr/bin/python Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2025 17:00:02 +0100 Message-ID: X-Mailbox-Line: From debian-python-request@lists.debian.org Wed Nov 12 15:57:09 2025 Old-Return-Path: X-Amavis-Spam-Status: No, score=-107.209 tagged_above=-10000 required=5.3 tests=[BAYES_00=-2, DKIMWL_WL_HIGH=-0.001, DKIM_SIGNED=0.1, DKIM_VALID=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_AU=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_EF=-0.1, LDO_WHITELIST=-5, RCVD_IN_VALIDITY_RPBL_BLOCKED=0.001, RCVD_IN_VALIDITY_SAFE_BLOCKED=0.001, USER_IN_DKIM_WELCOMELIST=-0.01, USER_IN_DKIM_WHITELIST=-100] autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Policyd-Weight: using cached result; rate: -3.5 X-Greylist: delayed 461 seconds by postgrey-1.36 at bendel; Wed, 12 Nov 2025 15:56:54 UTC Dmarc-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.4.2 marcos.anarc.at 25D5E10E082 Authentication-Results: marcos.anarc.at; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=debian.org Authentication-Results: marcos.anarc.at; spf=none smtp.mailfrom=debian.org Organization: Debian MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/23342 List-ID: List-URL: List-Archive: https://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/87ldkbxnd7.fsf@angela.anarc.at Approved: robomod@news.nic.it Lines: 27 Sender: robomod@news.nic.it X-Original-Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2025 10:49:08 -0500 X-Original-Message-ID: <87ldkbxnd7.fsf@angela.anarc.at> Xref: csiph.com linux.debian.maint.python:17141 Hi! Debian has shipped Python 3 as /usr/bin/python3 for a while now. For some time, we've also shipped a python-is-python3 package that ships a symlink from /usr/bin/python to /usr/bin/python as well, but it's not installed by default. I'm assuming that most distributions outside of Debian, at this point, have shipped /usr/bin/python as Python 3 for couple of years, as far as I know (although I haven't surveyed that formally). I've been wondering whether it's time we finally make this change. Concretely, I think it means: 1. deprecating /usr/bin/python3 2. shipping Python 3 as /usr/bin/python directly I think we should do this for Debian 14 (forky), and stop shipping python3 altogether in Debian 15 (?). Thoughts? A. --=20 If ease of use was the ultimate aim for a tool, the bicycle would never have evolved beyond the tricycle. =E2=80=94 Doug Engelbart, 1925-2013