Path: csiph.com!news.samoylyk.net!gothmog.csi.it!bofh.it!news.nic.it!robomod From: Michael Kesper Newsgroups: linux.debian.maint.python Subject: Re: /usr/bin/python3 deprecation and enforcing /usr/bin/python Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2025 18:00:01 +0100 Message-ID: References: X-Original-To: debian-python@lists.debian.org X-Mailbox-Line: From debian-python-request@lists.debian.org Fri Nov 14 16:54:11 2025 Old-Return-Path: X-Amavis-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.5 tagged_above=-10000 required=5.3 tests=[BAYES_00=-2, DKIM_SIGNED=0.1, DKIM_VALID=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_AU=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_EF=-0.1, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_MED=-2.3] autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Policyd-Weight: using cached result; rate: -4.6 X-Greylist: delayed 306 seconds by postgrey-1.36 at bendel; Fri, 14 Nov 2025 16:36:48 UTC Original-Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Original-Subject: Re: /usr/bin/python3 deprecation and enforcing /usr/bin/python Author: Michael Kesper MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Content-Language: de-DE Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/23357 List-ID: List-URL: List-Archive: https://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/57038eef-f807-4a18-baf5-a997f1defc68@familie-kesper.de Approved: robomod@news.nic.it Lines: 21 Organization: linux.* mail to news gateway Sender: robomod@news.nic.it X-Original-Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2025 17:31:39 +0100 X-Original-Message-ID: <57038eef-f807-4a18-baf5-a997f1defc68@familie-kesper.de> X-Original-References: <87ldkbxnd7.fsf@angela.anarc.at> Xref: csiph.com linux.debian.maint.python:17153 Hi all, On 12.11.25 16:49, 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 What would be a motivation to warrant such a breaking change? Every script / program for Python3 I know uses #!/usr/bin/env python3 (acknowledging virtualenv usage) or #!/usr/bin/python3 So this would be a very bad move for what gain exactly? All the best Michael Just a Debian and Python3 user