[Python-Dev] LSB: Selection of a Python version (original) (raw)

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Tue Dec 5 19:32:04 CET 2006

Anthony Baxter schrieb:

So I think a public statement that we will support 2.4 with security patches for a while longer (and perhaps with security patches only) would be a good thing - independent of the LSB, actually. Well, I don't know what sort of public statement you want to issue, but will this do? (Wearing my release manager hat)

This would be a good statement, but I have also a set of policies in mind that clarify what a "security bugfix" is, so people know what kind of changes they get when they install a new version that only has security bugfixes.

I believe this guarantee works in two ways: we should guarantee that we will accept security bugfixes, but we should also guarantee that we only accept security bugfixes (and perhaps critical crashers - although they overlap in the denial-of-service field).

Regards, Martin

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