Re: Proposed Mass Bug Filing: Renaming "python-" binary packages to "python2-"

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Adam Williamson wrote:
> Clearly what I meant was "any future non-backwards-compatible major
> Python release". Maybe *right now* you don't expect there to be one,
> but I'm sure there was probably a point during Python 1's lifetime at
> which no-one expected there to be a backwards-incompatible Python 2,
> and a point during Python 2's lifetime at which no-one expected there
> to be a backwards-incompatible Python 3...

Spot on.

There is a Swedish proverb. I don't know whether an English version
exists, but in translation it is: One time is no time; two times is a
habit. Since the Python API has been broken twice, we can expect that
it will be broken again.

Björn Persson

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