Bug#909510: Please report on unversioned Python shebangs (was: "Re: Bug#909510: please add a lintian note to inform/warn about python in the shebang (instead of python2/python2.7)")

[Chris Lamb <lamby@debian.org>]

retitle 909510 Please report on unversioned Python shebangs
thanks

Hi Matthias,

> I don't agree with Adrian's view.  If there is need to keep 2.7, then we should
> keep it to keep things running like mercurial, and afaik samba isn't yet ready
> for 3.x.  So yes, such a warning makes sense for bullseye.
> 
> It's ok to stop building unused python 2.x nodules once buster released, but
> that doesn't mean that we already are at the point to "aggressively to remove
> any python2 usage".

This bug report is less about the removal of Python 2.x modules per
se but more about "unversioned" shebangs. I'm retitling this bug to
match.

If other distributions are going to change (re. PEP 394 [0]) then
we should at least know where we stand and whether it would even be
feasible.

> Maybe first as a note so we can get an overview.

I was also somewhat taken by this idea. I would be quite interested
in knowing the numbers at the very least.

Thoughts?


  [0] https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0394/


Regards,

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