Frank_Küster wrote: > That sounds good, but wouldn't it be even better to have a symlink > /usr/bin/debpython-minimal or so, pointing to the interpreter? Then one > could still replace the interpreter by something else (by putting it > into /usr/local/bin), for example in order to debug a particularly weird > problem in a config script?
Or python-minimal could just provide /usr/bin/python-minimal. Then programs with minimal requirements would have #!/usr/bin/python-minimal and their packages would Depend on python-minimal, whereas normal python programs would have #!/usr/bin/python and would Depend on python. Behind the scenes /usr/bin/python would be a symlink to python-minimal but users wouldn't have to know this. The interpreter could even be modified so that it allows only modules from the minimal set to be imported, when run as /usr/bin/python-minimal. Thus if upstream's concern is that users not have a stripped down python, then Debian provides a stripped down "python-minimal" instead. -- Thomas Hood
