Path: csiph.com!feeder.erje.net!2.eu.feeder.erje.net!news.in-chemnitz.de!news2.arglkargh.de!news.mixmin.net!aioe.org!bofh.it!news.nic.it!robomod From: Piotr =?utf-8?Q?O=C5=BCarowski?= Newsgroups: linux.debian.maint.python Subject: Re: MBF for deprecating Python2 usage Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2017 08:10:02 +0200 Message-ID: References: X-Mailbox-Line: From debian-python-request@lists.debian.org Fri Aug 4 05:59:59 2017 Old-Return-Path: X-Amavis-Spam-Status: No, score=-6.999 tagged_above=-10000 required=5.3 tests=[BAYES_00=-2, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.001, LDO_WHITELIST=-5] autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Policyd-Weight: using cached result; rate: -6.1 Mail-Followup-To: debian-python@lists.debian.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline X-Operating-System: Debian GNU/Linux (4.9.0-3-amd64) User-Agent: NeoMutt/20170113 (1.7.2) X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/15069 List-ID: List-URL: List-Archive: https://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/20170804055942.zyg4tdayqxnpzzdj@sar0.p1otr.com Approved: robomod@news.nic.it Lines: 21 Organization: linux.* mail to news gateway Sender: robomod@news.nic.it X-Original-Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2017 07:59:42 +0200 X-Original-Message-ID: <20170804055942.zyg4tdayqxnpzzdj@sar0.p1otr.com> X-Original-References: <3109A909-3338-4717-BFD2-D65E9206FD7F@debian.org> <9614BFBC-E260-48A6-B722-DDD41E715A20@kitterman.com> Xref: csiph.com linux.debian.maint.python:9688 [Scott Kitterman, 2017-08-04] > Read it. I remain completely convinced that /usr/bin/python pointing > at a python3 version is utterly wrong and a disservice to our users. > Even after we remove python2.7, people will be locally compiling it > and using it for a decade. > > Such a change would be actively user hostile. > > When python2.7 goes away, /usr/bin/python should go too. > > Before python2.7 goes away, any python3 scripts/apps need to work with > /usr/bin/python3. Making them work with /usr/bin/python too doesn't > actually help anything. All it does is look pretty for us old timers. > > I've said before and I've yet to see anything to cause me to have any > doubt on the matter, that as long as I am one of the python-defaults > maintainers, /usr/bin/python will not point at a python3 version. same here. Way too many not packaged /usr/bin/python scripts around me -- GPG: 1D2F A898 58DA AF62 1786 2DF7 AEF6 F1A2 A745 7645