Re: /usr/bin/python3 deprecation and enforcing /usr/bin/python

Michael Kesper <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.devel.python
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi all,

On 12.11.25 16:49, Antoine Beaupré wrote:
> I've been wondering whether it's time we finally make this
> change. Concretely, I think it means:
> 
>   1. deprecating /usr/bin/python3
>   2. shipping Python 3 as /usr/bin/python directly

What would be a motivation to warrant such a breaking change?
Every script / program for Python3 I know uses
#!/usr/bin/env python3
(acknowledging virtualenv usage) or
#!/usr/bin/python3

So this would be a very bad move for what gain exactly?

All the best
Michael

Just a Debian and Python3 user
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