On Jul 24, 2013, at 01:32 PM, Scott Kitterman wrote: >Jakub Wilk <jw...@debian.org> wrote: >>* Barry Warsaw <ba...@debian.org>, 2013-07-24, 12:38: >>>In any case, it's come up that PEP 394 recommends distros start >>>adopting shebang lines that state /usr/bin/python2 in their scripts, >>>and I don't think we do this yet. We should! >> >>We absolutely should not. > >Definitely not. The entire notion that /usr/bin/python should point at >python3 anytime soon is nuts. Do it when python2.7 is removed from the >archive, not before. If you aren't going to do that switch, /usr/bin/python2 >is meaningless other than as a workaround for people who care about Arch. >Since upstream now ships /usr/bin/python2 we should too (and we do for >Jessie), but there's no good reason for us to be using it.
Can you or Jakub elaborate on *why* you think it's a bad idea? I can't see how it hurts. Setting aside the Python 3 transition, and in light of the recommendations of PEP 394: * It doesn't break anything. As you say, we already ship /usr/bin/python2, so everything that works with #!/usr/bin/python will continue to work with #!/usr/bin/python2. You can still override the shebang line with whatever executable you want, of course. * Nobody probably even cares. How many people care what's in the shebang line of scripts? I bet the fraction of users that have looked at the lines is pretty low (it was a while before we finally agreed to stop shipping #!/usr/bin/env python). Note that no one is saying that /usr/bin/python should change to python3 *any time soon*. I don't put 2+ years away as any time soon (given that I agree upstream Python shouldn't even consider changing the recommendation before Python 2.7 goes into security-only mode in May 2015). So I guess I'd turn it around and say there's no good reason for us *not* to do it, but maybe I'm overlooking something. -Barry -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-python-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130724140417.5f05f4d3@anarchist
