Re: [PATCH] Add express-beta-diversity

[Andreas Enge]

On Thu, Oct 15, 2015 at 11:11:39PM +1000, Ben Woodcroft wrote:
> I noticed when packaging this that when "python" is provided as an input
> (and not python-2), then the python scripts don't get their shebangs fixed,
> because there is no python executable in the $PATH (it is python3). This
> seems not right to me - is there a reason for this, maybe so python 2 and 3
> can coexist?

Yes. Our python package follows upstream and only provides binaries called
python3 and python3.4. The python-2.7.10 package also follows upstream
(you can see a pattern here :-)) and provides python, python2 and python2.7.

You will probably want to use python-wrapper, which corresponds to the
python package with an additional symbolic link python->python3
(and some others); it is actually used in a number of package recipes.

Andreas