Adrian Bunk wrote: > > There is discussion upstream about updating PEP 394 to recommend > > soft-linking > > python to python3 on newer distributions. Not a good idea from my point of > > view, but it would be better if we remove the usage of python as a shebang > > in > > our packages. Replacing that with python2 or python2.7 should be easy and > > safe. > > It would be nice if lintian could help with this task. Maybe first as a > > note so > > we can get an overview. > > Isn't it too late for such a lintian warning to make sense? > > We are only 5.5 months away from the buster freeze, and there > is no realistic chance of fixing this archive-wide until then. > > Unless plans have changed python2 will not be part of bullseye, > and for that to happen removal of any python2 usage has to start > aggressively directly after the release of buster. > The lintian warning would be moot then. > > If such an upstream change will be in bullseye or later, > the realistic solution would be to add a > Breaks: python-minimal > Replaces: python-minimal > to python3-minimal.
Any followup to this, Matthias? Regards, -- ,''`. : :' : Chris Lamb `. `'` la...@debian.org 🍥 chris-lamb.co.uk `-