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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: Test failures with python versions when building git 1.8.1
Date: Tue, 01 Jan 2013 21:19:13 -0800
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Dan McGee <dan@archlinux.org> writes:

> A test case snuck in this release that assumes /usr/bin/python is
> python2 and causes test failures. Unlike all other tests and code
> depending on python, this one does not respect PYTHON_PATH, which we
> explicitly set when building git on Arch Linux due to python2 vs
> python3 differences.

I had an impression that you are not supposed to run our scripts
with python3 yet (no python scripts have been checked for python3
compatibility), even though some people have expressed interests in
doing so.

Eric?