[arch-dev-public] Python move news announcement draft

[Ray Rashif]

On 18 October 2010 20:39, Dieter Plaetinck <dieter at plaetinck.be> wrote:
> On Mon, 18 Oct 2010 22:32:13 +1000
> Allan McRae <allan at archlinux.org> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I will move python stuff from [testing] soon so we will need a news
>> item...  Here is a draft:
>>
>> --begin draft--
>>
>> Major python update
>>
>> A major python update is hitting the repos on a mirror near you.
>> This involves update the python package from the 2.6 series to the
>
> updating, or "an update"
>
>> 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