From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.2 i686; Nav) Since python is used by system utils, but scripts don't specify the version, it is very difficult for a user to upgrade to python2.0 without breaking system utils. If you simply install python2.0 distr system utils break, because RH adds LOTS of python packages that are not part of the standard python2.0 distr. 3 solutions: 1) Make python2.0 standard 2) Put #!python1.5 at the start of all system scripts 3) Make it easy to get all the RH added python packages that would be needed to upgrade python IMHO, you should do both 1, 2, and 3. Reproducible: Didn't try
Python 2.x will be included in the next Major release (.0) of Red Hat Linux. Until then our binary compatibility rules prevent us from deploying it. The next release of Red Hat Linux (7.1) will have a python2 package on the Powertools CD and /usr/bin/python2. This is part of our Python 2.x migration plan. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 27133 ***