Barry A. Warsaw wrote:
> 
> Barry A. Warsaw <barry@python.org> added the comment:
> 
> 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.

Ah, those lazy Debian/Ubuntu folks again ;-)