Hi,

čt 9. 7. 2020 v 15:27 odesílatel Matthias Klose <d...@debian.org> napsal:

> Describing here a solution which is implemented for Ubuntu focal (20.04
> LTS).  A
> new source package what-is-python (-perl-dont-hurt-me) ships binary
> packages
> python-is-python2, python-dev-is-python2, python-is-python3 and
> python-dev-is-python3.  The python-is-python2 package provides the python
> package, such that packages that still depend on python are not removed on
> a
> distro upgrade.  On new installs, python-is-python3 is not installed by
> default,
> but the user gets a hint from command-not-found to install the package if
> he
> tries to run python.  Package dependencies on the new four binary packages
> have
> to be disallowed in the Python policy.  Note that such a package including
> the
> Provides should only be uploaded once all dependencies on the unversioned
> python
> packages are gone.
>

I like this solution in Ubuntu and I have:
onovy@jupiter:~$ dpkg -l | grep python-is-python3
ii  python-is-python3                          3.8.2-4
          all          symlinks /usr/bin/python to python3

What I think is good idea:
* keep "python" command pointing to python2.7 if I'm upgrading
buster->bullseye with python2.7 installed. We are going to keep python2.7
interpreter for bullseye, so don't break old "python" command for
third-parties apps/scripts/etc. (install python-is-python2 during
buster->bullseye upgrade)
* allow users to choose if they want python=python3 (apt install
python-is-python3)
* (maybe?) python=python3 in new installs, because why not? (install
python-is-python3 by default in clean install)

-- 
Best regards
 Ondřej Nový

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