[Python-Dev] Issue 11715: building Python from source on multiarch Debian/Ubuntu (original) (raw)

Tim Wintle timwintle at gmail.com
Fri Apr 1 12:54:07 CEST 2011

On Fri, 2011-04-01 at 08:37 +1000, Nick Coghlan wrote:

On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 3:35 AM, Éric Araujo <merwok at netwok.org> wrote: > If I understand the policy correctly, 2.5 and 2.6 are not considered > active branches, so any doc, build or bug fixes are not acceptable.

Actual build fixes may be acceptable, if they're needed to allow people to build from a version control checkout or from source (since they need to be able to do that in order to apply security patches). However, the combination of "running on Ubuntu 11.04+" and "need to build security patched version of old Python" seems unlikely.

I disagree.

FWIW - I maintain legacy code for python2.4, and 2.5 (mainly 2.5).

I've reviewed upgrading this code to run on 2.7 - and it's too much work to do in the near future.

I develop on Ubuntu (and will probably update to 11.04 in a few months)

I'm fairly sure that others will be in the same situation.

Even if their servers won't run ubuntu 11.04+ (or something with the same library paths), their development environments will.

As a result, I'm very much +1 on integrating this patch to previous versions.

Tim Wintle

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