On Aug 18, 2011, at 05:54 PM, Martin v. Löwis wrote:

>As for the cases where "linux3" is reported: I don't care that
>they break. Python 2.6 and Python 2.7.2 is incompatible with
>Linux 3. Users should be advised to a) not upgrade to Linux 3, or
>b) simultaneously upgrade to a newer Python release, or
>c) work-around in their applications.
>
>I expect that most users chose a) for some time to come (until
>the Linux distributions ship the new kernels), and that the Linux
>distributions chose b) and c).

In fact, for Debian and Ubuntu, we had several breakages due to sys.platform
== 'linux3' so for all Pythons we still support, we're going to force it back
to 'linux2'.  This fixed all those broken packages without any of them needing
to be changed.