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From: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2017 14:19:05 +0100
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] scripts: Support building with Python 3
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To: "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@redhat.com>
Cc: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>, Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com>, David Michael <fedora.dm0@gmail.com>, QEMU Developers <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>

On 31 August 2017 at 14:14, Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com> wrote:
> NB, some distros have already changed /usr/bin/python to point to py3
> so all the files with #!/usr/bin/python in QEMU are already broken on
> those distros.

This is a bug in those distros and they should fix it. Python 3
is not Python 2 and making /usr/bin/python point to the wrong
interpreter will have predictably bad results for their users...

thanks
-- PMM