[Eil]

Chances are exceedingly good that Arch package maintainers will be checking their Python applications and updating them to use /usr/bin/python2 if they don't run under Python 3. Actually, this should have already happened since the change has apparently been in testing for awhile.

[patd]

I'm not really familiar with what Arch package maintainers do but aren't package maintainer mainly packager and not coders ?

I imagine that someone could easily be packaging 10 Python apps or libraries. He can't be upgrading all that code to Python 3 as it is not always a trivial task and would require a lot of work and constant patching if the developing team keeps working with Python 2.X

But overall, I think this is a good way to push developers to upgrade or at least prepare more to move to Python 3.

[nixme]

You're misunderstanding. Arch is still shipping Python 2.7 with the python2 package.

So package maintainers don't need to rewrite upstream code if it's not compatible with Python 3; they just need to update dependencies and set paths to point to the /usr/bin/python2 binary.