[Python-Dev] Support the /usr/bin/python2 symlink upstream (original) (raw)
Piotr Ożarowski piotr at debian.org
Wed Mar 2 13:56:41 CET 2011
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[Sandro Tosi, 2011-03-02]
On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 10:01, Piotr Ożarowski <piotr at debian.org> wrote: > I co-maintain with Matthias a package that provides /usr/bin/python > symlink in Debian and I can confirm that it will always point to Python > 2.X. We also do not plan to add /usr/bin/python2 symlink (and I guess > only accepted PEP can change that)
Can you please explain why you NACK this proposed change?
it encourages people to change /usr/bin/python symlink to point to python3.X which I'm strongly against (how can I tell that upstream author meant python3.X and not python2.X without checking the code?)
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