[Bug 1859843] Re: Please add python2 to bionic

[Matthias Klose]

feel free to do so ;)

I think that should be a backport of 2.7.17-2.  Instead of what I said
offline, the files/links should be in the same binary packages as in
focal, or else you'll need changes in newer distros.

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Title:
  Please add python2 to bionic

Status in python-defaults package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in python-defaults source package in Bionic:
  New

Bug description:
  python2 now exists in disco and up.

  can you please introduce `python2` in bionic, which is an empty meta-
  package with like `Depends: python-minimal`. Or something like that.

  Such that one can use "python2" dependency in either bionic or focal,
  and get /usr/bin/python2.

  Specifically kernel autopkgtest currently use python2 and will likely
  be backported to bionic, and will then break. I'm proposing for them
  to use "python2 | python" but that will eventually break in focal++

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