Re: [Git][gpsd/gpsd][master] Ubuntu has abolished /usr/bin/python, change shebangs to python3.

[Gary E. Miller]

Yo Eric!

On Mon, 20 Sep 2021 16:09:45 -0400
"Eric S. Raymond" <esr@thyrsus.com> wrote:

> > =====================================
> > devtools/aivdmtable
> > =====================================
> > @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
> > -#!/usr/bin/env python
> > +#!/usr/bin/env python4=3
> > 
> > Can that be right?  
> 
> Nope.  Typo, I'll fixit.

Thanks.

>  As for dead/not-dead
[...]
> esr@snark:~$ python
> Command 'python' not found, did you mean:
>   command 'python3' from deb python3
>   command 'python' from deb python-is-python

Dead for you is not dead for everyone.  gpsd still has users on
Solaris.

> That's a smoking gun.  For practical puroses, it's dead.

Dead for you is not dead for everyone.

You broke some up to date Gentoo installs.
Even Chrome still needs Python2.

Luckily those are only dev tools.  The users tools have dynamic shebang.

RGDS
GARY
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