On Wed, 11 May 2022 at 14:54, Lennart Sorensen via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:
>
> On Wed, May 11, 2022 at 09:30:41AM -0400, Stewart Russell via talk wrote:
> > I just did the 22.04 upgrade thing, and it seems that Firefox will be held
> > at v 99 if you don't have snapd. So beware of old/held packages as you
> > update.
> >
> > Another delightful thing I found is that Ubuntu took its very own special
> > path in the "Sensible things to do in the Python 2 / Python 3" debacle:
> > remove Python 2, but don't link python3 to python. Move fast and break
> > stuff is very tiring when you're constantly getting beaten up like this.
>
> Upstream python says not to call python3 as python.  So Unbuntu did
> it correctly.
>
> Python 3 code calls /usr/bin/python3 (or probably better yet /usr/bin/env
> python3) and legacy python 2 code calls /usr/bin/python.

That actually makes sense.  Then the next one can be 'python4' without
causing problems.  But many distros - and many system administrators
will probably just make it 'python'.  <sigh>

Yup.  Here's Fedora 35:

$ which python
/usr/bin/python
$ python --version
Python 3.10.4

Debian is guilty of the same thing - which is interesting, because
Ubuntu is based on Debian and would have had to take a detour to "do
the right thing."

Debian and Fedora both also have /usr/bin/python3.

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