> who said, that we should rename packages? The only packages being dropped are > the python defaults packages. > > > > I refuse to do that work! > > There is no work in renaming the packages. It's about the dependency > generation > and the shebang.
the work in dh-python is not trivial. The work needed in thousands of packages (all Python related packages build depend on python{,-dev} or python-all{,-dev} is not as well. Rebuilding all binary packages means even more work (${python:Depends} is not always the only dependency)… and that's only a work in Debian. There are lots of packages outside Debian that will need to be updated… for what purpose exactly? To make it easier to propose later python2-foo binary package rename, like Fedora did? > > The only message it sends is that we don't think /usr/bin/python or > > python package is Python 2.7 anymore and that's definitely not the > > message I want to send. > > No, that's not what the PEP says. not yet. We all know that it will happen sooner or later, though. How about creating DEP-394 with a strong message that we have default Python 2.X and default Python 3.X interpreters and once 2.X will be gone. Python 3 will NOT become default Python 2.X? -- GPG: 1D2F A898 58DA AF62 1786 2DF7 AEF6 F1A2 A745 7645