Re: including EOL and vulnerable software in Fedora

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski" <dominik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, python-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Friday, October 7, 2016 9:23:51 PM
Subject: Re: including EOL and vulnerable software in Fedora


> How do you propose we do that? I can imagine patching the interpreter
> to print some warning about this every time it's run, but I wonder
> if that's too much to ask.

This is possible.

> I am not denying the usefulness, though I wonder why you would want to
> test against an unmaintained branch. I can see a case for python-2.6,
> which will be maintained by Red Hat for a couple more years and I'd expect
> the Fedora maintainer to either be the same person who maintains it in
> RHEL or that they follow the RHEL package closely otherwise.

That holds true for the Fedora maintainer(s) of these packages, I don't know why you would assume otherwise.

Charalampos Stratakis
Associate Software Engineer
Python Maintenance Team, Red Hat
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