Path: csiph.com!aioe.org!bofh.it!news.nic.it!robomod From: Thomas Goirand Newsgroups: linux.debian.maint.python Subject: Re: Updated PEP 394 (python and python2 commands) Date: Sun, 20 May 2018 23:50:01 +0200 Message-ID: References: X-Original-To: debian-python X-Mailbox-Line: From debian-python-request@lists.debian.org Sun May 20 21:49:47 2018 Old-Return-Path: X-Amavis-Spam-Status: No, score=-7 tagged_above=-10000 required=5.3 tests=[BAYES_00=-2, LDO_WHITELIST=-5, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE=-0.0001] autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Policyd-Weight: using cached result; rate: -5 Organization: Debian User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.7.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/15976 List-ID: List-URL: List-Archive: https://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/6a23522f-060f-7624-f950-63c8f641bd3f@debian.org Approved: robomod@news.nic.it Lines: 23 Sender: robomod@news.nic.it X-Original-Date: Sun, 20 May 2018 23:49:27 +0200 X-Original-Message-ID: <6a23522f-060f-7624-f950-63c8f641bd3f@debian.org> X-Original-References: <6dc7af52-174f-04c5-9149-cc5affa8afb1@debian.org> Xref: csiph.com linux.debian.maint.python:10570 On 05/17/2018 08:53 PM, Matthias Klose wrote: > PEP 394 [1] saw an update in April 2018 [2], the diffs at [3]. > > The most important change from my point of view is > > -* It is suggested that even distribution-specific packages follow the > - ``python2``/``python3`` convention, even in code that is not intended to > +* It is strongly encouraged that distribution-specific packages use ``python2`` > + or ``python3`` rather than ``python``, even in code that is not intended to > operate on other distributions. > > I don't think there is enough time to replace all python shebangs to python2 in > time for the buster release, however there is no harm in starting this process > now. But I'd like to get this done for buster+1, in the case we still need to > ship a Python2/2.7, so that buster+1 doesn't ship with a python command, but > maybe with a python2 command. I very much support this proposal, and don't understand why Scott and Piotr aren't (plus seemingly inventing things you haven't proposed). Cheers, Thomas Goirand (zigo)