On Thu, Mar 16, 2023 at 2:46 PM Yuri Khan <yuri.v.khan@gmail.com> wrote:

> 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