Python 2 ======== * how to notify users that Python 2.7 will go away soon? Release notes? Sprint notes: https://wiki.debian.org/Sprints/2017/Python3Montreal Python 3 ======== * converting applications to Python 3 (where possible) - what can we improve? * when should we start removing python-foo binary packages? /usr/bin/python =============== * how to defend against the "one digit less to type will save the world" movement? * /usr/bin/python2 as shebang in our scripts? * deprecation warning in all scripts invoked via /usr/bin/python? * when is it safe to remove/replace /usr/bin/python symlink? - when python2.7 (installed with older Debian release) no longer works? (Bullseye+1?) Current plan: Have /usr/bin/python symlink point to python3 when python2.7 is removed, Topic doesn't fully gather a consensus right now, other than "we need to tell users not to use /usr/bin/python and use /usr/bin/python3 instead". dmitry: - /usr/bin/python is usefull on interactive console, not having it is annoying - Agrees on the warning thing DPMT ==== * git-bp pq About branch names: ------------------ We can switch to something else than "master" for the packaging branch, Tumbleweed is proposing to do so. If we do, then we shall not describe the branch name in a debian/gpb.conf, it's best if everyone specifies "git-ignore-branch" in ~/.gbp.conf