Am 18.10.2010 16:36, schrieb Ray Rashif:
2.7 series. However, with python-2.7 being scheduled to be the last major release in the python-2.x series, python 2.7 is now packaged as "python2", while the "python" package will contain the python 3.x series. This means that /usr/bin/python will point at python 3.x and
"will contain", "will point" ? when you post this, this will already be the case, no?
This has to do with the fact that nobody will be getting the update immediately:
"A major python update is hitting the repos on a mirror near you."
But of course, the tenses don't really matter - either is or will be right :p
What's new here is that the update will propagate very fast: The package files themselves are already on all mirrors, only a bunch of symlinks will be adjusted - this will be extremely cheap in terms of bandwidth. This is the first major move affected by this recent change.