[Python-Dev] Upcoming 2.4.5 and 2.3.7 releases (original) (raw)

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Mon Jan 28 17:06:26 CET 2008

On Jan 27, 2008 5:11 PM, Barry Warsaw <barry at python.org> wrote:

On Jan 27, 2008, at 2:27 PM, Martin v. Löwis wrote:

> Along with the release of 2.5.2, I would also like to release > new versions of 2.3 and 2.4. These will be security-only releases, > and include a few security-relevant bug fixes that are still being > finalized. > > As we don't have the infrastructure to produce full releases of 2.3 > or 2.4 anymore, this will be a source release only. As such, it > will likely see less testing than other releases, and users will have > more difficulties in obtaining the software for their system - the > releases will be targeted primarily at system vendors who can chose > to include them as security patches in their system updates. If the intent is really to do a source-only releases mostly for system vendors, then I don't see the harm in leaving those changes in. I mean, a vendor is going to cherry pick the ones they want anyway, so let's just make it easy for them to do this. That might mean publishing the svn logs a long with the source release, or publishing each diff and log message separately. I would be bummed to rollback the email package changes.

But which vendor would cherry-pick those changes for 2.3 or 2.4? I presume vendors are also in security-fixes-only mode. Are any of the email package fixes security fixes?

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