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

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Hi Antoine (2025.11.12_15:49:08_+0000)
>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 don't see 1. as a real option at this point. Yes, it'll get less 
useful to keep /usr/bin/python3 if we have /usr/bin/python, but upstream 
installs a python3 binary (IIRC mostly because we asked for it) and 
virtualenv etc. do.

Deperaction discussions should probably happen upstream, once we've 
added /usr/bin/python back. We can start them and say that we're not 
against it.

Stefano

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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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