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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 19:00:01 +0100
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On Wed, Nov 12, 2025 at 06:33:45PM +0100, Matthias Klose wrote:
> On 11/12/25 17:13, Santiago Vila wrote:
> > 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).
> 
> please stop the ranting.  This has nothing to do on the python ML, and you
> could raise your concerns in a more civilized way on appropriate channels.

It was never my intention to rant. My suggestion for this to be as
smooth as possible has everything to do on the python ML, and afaik I
have not said anything which could be characterized as "non-civilized".

So please do not overreact.

Thanks.