Package: python3 Version: 3.5.3-1 Severity: important Dear Maintainer,
Shouldn't python be registering with the debian alternatives system, so that update-alternatives allows things like /usr/bin/python to symlink to the desired version when multiple python versions are installed? Currently, with 2.7 and 3.5 installed, I have to do it all by hand if I want to make python3 the default, and this feels undebian and like I might be missing important things because /usr/bin also contains stuff like python-config and python3m which I guess might need symlinking too and I don't know if there are libs anywhere that need similar treatment, or stuff in other packages that assumes python will always be python version 2 and might break so an official supported way of changing python version via update-alternatives would be really good. Thanks! -- System Information: Debian Release: 9.4 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-6-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_GB.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_GB:en (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages python3 depends on: ii dh-python 2.20170125 ii libpython3-stdlib 3.5.3-1 ii python3-minimal 3.5.3-1 ii python3.5 3.5.3-1 python3 recommends no packages. Versions of packages python3 suggests: pn python3-doc <none> pn python3-tk <none> pn python3-venv <none> -- no debconf information
