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. -- Giles https://www.gilesorr.com/ giles...@gmail.com --- Post to this mailing list talk@gtalug.org Unsubscribe from this mailing list https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk