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Wed Mar 2 13:56:41 CET 2011 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2011-March/108534.html

[Sandro Tosi, 2011-03-02]
> On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 10:01, Piotr Ożarowski <piotr at debian.org> wrote:
> > I co-maintain with Matthias a package that provides /usr/bin/python
> > symlink in Debian and I can confirm that it will always point to Python
> > 2.X. We also do not plan to add /usr/bin/python2 symlink (and I guess
> > only accepted PEP can change that)
> 
> Can you please explain why you NACK this proposed change?

it encourages people to change /usr/bin/python symlink to point to
python3.X which I'm strongly against (how can I tell that upstream
author meant python3.X and not python2.X without checking the code?)
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[Python-Dev] Support the /usr/bin/python2 symlink upstream