On Fri, 17 Mar 2023 at 01:18, Augusto Stoffel <arstoffel@gmail.com> wrote:
> I would like to understand why python-is-python3 is not installed by
> default nowadays. It is in Fedora, for instance.
As far as I understand, Debian is trying to provide a very gentle
transition period for users, and enforces explicit python versioning
in all its packages. It also encourages developers to specify
explicitly python2 or python3 by not shipping the /usr/bin/python link
by default (except for upgrades from older distro versions).
Maybe one day we can say there is only one Python version. But today
is not that day.
FWIW: I'm running Debian 11, and there is no "python" by default. There is a python3 included in the base, and there is NOT a python2 included in same, under any name.
Hope that helps,
~Chad