On 29 October 2013 02:22, Steve M. Robbins <st...@sumost.ca> wrote: > Hello, > > The Debian Python Policy documents [1] the rtupdate script for dealing with > default runtime changes. Is this documentation still valid? Will rtupdate be > used when the default runtime changes to python 3 or later? >
python3.X series and python2.X series are two distinct languages (incompatible API and ABI changes), and it has been decided to keep both alive as independent implementations. thus "/usr/bin/python" will always point to a python2.X implementation, the last one ever of which is python2.7. However, "/usr/bin/python3" will continue to be updated, and will be migrating in debian (e.g. 3.1 -> 3.2, 3.2 -> 3.3, and etc). .rtupdate file location for python3 is /usr/share/python3/runtime.d ps. ... apart from Arch who decided to point "python" to a python3.x implementation, which is widely agreed as being wrong. And Python upstream essentially veto doing so - http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0394/ Regards, Dmitrijs. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-python-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CANBHLUiEzygwknQvifxhe4a29aSgOSvag0=qodjrfhu1d3t...@mail.gmail.com
