On 16. 11. 23 13:45, Kevin Kofler via devel wrote:
It would be very much possible to support the Python 2 parts of the spec, without even shipping unmaintained software: Package Tauthon 2.8.4, and make both /usr/bin/python and /usr/bin/python2 symlinks to /usr/bin/tauthon. That should have been the Python 2 migration plan from the beginning, instead of the package mass retirement spree that was done instead. (And Python 3 should never have been installed as /usr/bin/python. Scripts with #!/usr/bin/python expect Python 2, silently replacing it with Python 3 breaks the scripts. Anything aware that a Python 3 exists uses, or at least SHOULD use, #!/usr/bin/python3.)
Thank you for your very constructive suggestion, Kevin!
Why don't you package Tauthon in Fedora, keep it secure by backporting CVE fixes from Python 3 (because upstream Tauthon does not) and propose that Fedora should go against Python PEPs and Python Software Foundation wishes because... scripts.
I would certainly oppose that proposal, but I realize I am biased.