On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 3:08 PM, Jason L Tibbitts III <ti...@math.uh.edu> wrote:
> >>>>> "SG" == Stephen Gallagher <sgall...@redhat.com> writes: > > SG> To supplement this, it's the default in the sense that packagers are > SG> expected to ship python3 packages if they are supported upstream and > SG> if the package includes the same binary executable name for py2 and > SG> py3, only the py3 package should ship it. > > Given the number of questions that keep coming up about this, I have to > wonder if the Python packaging guidelines are unclear, or if people > don't realize that they should look there for the rules surrounding > how Fedora deals with the various python versions. > > If they're unclear, I can try to clarify them. I've already done so a > couple of times but maybe not sufficiently. > I think the confusion comes from the fact that for several releases we heard "get ready because Python 3 is going to be the default" and then all of the sudden that just stopped. From the wiki about it ( https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Python_3_as_Default ) it appears that the plan is still to make Python 3 the default and when you google "fedora python" that wiki is the second item on the list. I think that updating that wiki with the current plan would help a lot.
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