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

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On 2025-11-12 10:49:08 -0500 (-0500), Antoine Beaupré wrote:
[...]
>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 (?).
[...]

I can understand the need for #2, but I don't see why you'd ever do 
#1. For that matter, the python3 link is still included by upstream 
Cpython when doing a `make install` or in a stdlib-created venv. 
Lots of user-written scripts use python3 in their shebangs. It's not 
harming anything simply by existing, so why deprecate something that 
can't/shouldn't be removed?
-- 
Jeremy Stanley

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/usr/bin/python3 deprecation and enforcing /usr/bin/python Antoine Beaupré <anarcat@debian.org> - 2025-11-12 17:00 +0100
  Re: /usr/bin/python3 deprecation and enforcing /usr/bin/python Santiago Vila <sanvila@debian.org> - 2025-11-12 17:20 +0100
    Re: /usr/bin/python3 deprecation and enforcing /usr/bin/python Matthias Klose <doko@debian.org> - 2025-11-12 18:40 +0100
      Re: /usr/bin/python3 deprecation and enforcing /usr/bin/python Santiago Vila <sanvila@debian.org> - 2025-11-12 19:00 +0100
  Re: /usr/bin/python3 deprecation and enforcing /usr/bin/python Jerome Kieffer <Jerome.Kieffer@esrf.fr> - 2025-11-12 18:10 +0100
  Re: /usr/bin/python3 deprecation and enforcing /usr/bin/python Jeremy Stanley <fungi@yuggoth.org> - 2025-11-12 18:30 +0100
    Re: /usr/bin/python3 deprecation and enforcing /usr/bin/python Matthias Klose <doko@debian.org> - 2025-11-12 18:50 +0100
  Re: /usr/bin/python3 deprecation and enforcing /usr/bin/python Andrey Rakhmatullin <wrar@debian.org> - 2025-11-13 17:30 +0100
    Re: /usr/bin/python3 deprecation and enforcing /usr/bin/python Alexandre Detiste <alexandre.detiste@gmail.com> - 2025-11-13 22:20 +0100
  Re: /usr/bin/python3 deprecation and enforcing /usr/bin/python Michael Kesper <michael@familie-kesper.de> - 2025-11-14 18:00 +0100
    Re: /usr/bin/python3 deprecation and enforcing /usr/bin/python Michael Kesper <michael@familie-kesper.de> - 2025-11-14 18:50 +0100
      Re: /usr/bin/python3 deprecation and enforcing /usr/bin/python Alexandru Mihail <alexandru.mihail2897@gmail.com> - 2025-11-14 20:10 +0100
  Re: /usr/bin/python3 deprecation and enforcing /usr/bin/python Stefano Rivera <stefanor@debian.org> - 2025-11-14 19:00 +0100

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