Re: GNOME goal for 3.8: Python 3 -- impact for pygobject itself

[Colin Walters <walters verbum org>]

On Mon, 2012-11-05 at 11:45 -0500, Colin Walters wrote:

> Probably the least bad thing to do is for jhbuild, just pass
> --with-python=python3 for pygobject, and --with-python=python2 for
> pygobject-py2.  Then we test in jhbuild if /usr/bin/python is Python 2,
> *and* there's no /usr/bin/python2 symbolic link, we just insert one in
> the jhbuild root.

Oh yeah, it's ugly:

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=687692

Lightly tested in a Wheezy VM.  I suggest we say this is good enough,
leave Debian holding the ball, and move forward in GNOME with the
assumption that PEP 0394 holds.