[Python-Dev] 2.5.2 release coming up (original) (raw)

Steve Holden steve at holdenweb.com
Wed Jan 23 21:25:46 CET 2008

Giampaolo Rodola' wrote:

Also, nothing should go into the 2.4 branch any more except important security patches. ^^^^^^^^^ http://bugs.python.org/issue1745035 I guess this one should concern both 2.4 and 2.5 branches.

Egregious though the error may be I can't myself see that a complete new release is justified simply to include a four-line patch in a single (not often-used?) module. If it were a buffer overflow it might be different (but that would pretty much have to involve a C component).

Couldn't we just publicize the patch? I can't bring myself to believe that 1745035 is really "important" enough.

regards Steve

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