Re: Please install /usr/bin/python2

2013-09-16 Thread Kerrick Staley
On Sun, Sep 15, 2013 at 11:34 AM, Scott Kitterman wrote: > OK. I think that convinces me it's widely enough spread we ought to fix this > for Wheezy. I'll take it up with the release managers as it's their > decision, not mine. Bug filed: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=723182

Re: Please install /usr/bin/python2

2013-09-15 Thread Kerrick Staley
Scott, I booted up a CentOS 6.4 VM, and the symlink is there (runs python2.6). I'd be interested to know if there are any other systems where it's unavailable though. - Kerrick On Sat, Sep 14, 2013 at 2:23 PM, Scott Kitterman wrote: > > > Kerrick Staley wrote: > >Wha

Re: Please install /usr/bin/python2

2013-09-14 Thread Kerrick Staley
What's not included in "some newer releases" here? /usr/bin/python2 has been present on all systems I've used except Debian. - Kerrick On Sat, Sep 14, 2013 at 9:25 AM, Scott Kitterman wrote: > > > Kerrick Staley wrote: > >Thanks! > > > >The ups

Re: Please install /usr/bin/python2

2013-09-14 Thread Kerrick Staley
Thanks! The upstream recommendation (from PEP 394 [1]) is that, going forward, portable scripts *can't* assume python is python2, and *should* use python2. - Kerrick [1] http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0394/

Please install /usr/bin/python2

2013-09-13 Thread Kerrick Staley
Please install /usr/bin/python2 as part of the default Debian install. It still doesn't exist on 7.1, which prevents scripts with a shebang of #!/usr/bin/python2 from running. Note that the following matters (which have derailed previous threads on this topic) are irrelevant to this request: - whe