Not a good move. Considering the large base of programs that expect Python 2.x, the safe thing to do would be to keep /usr/bin/python pointing at the 2.x binaries while using /usr/bin/python3 for the 3.x ones. At some point in the future if Python 2.x really is dead, you can just point both python and python3 at the same thing.
This seems more like somebody trying to evangelize for Python 3 and against Python 2, by purposely breaking a lot of old software, and quite antithetical to the Robustness Principle that I would expect most good software to at least attempt to shoot for.
Hopefully other distros will take a more conservative path. Python 2.x is going to be around for a long, long time.
This seems more like somebody trying to evangelize for Python 3 and against Python 2, by purposely breaking a lot of old software, and quite antithetical to the Robustness Principle that I would expect most good software to at least attempt to shoot for.
Hopefully other distros will take a more conservative path. Python 2.x is going to be around for a long, long time.