-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2010-0393 2010-01-12 20:05:38 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Name : python Product : Fedora 12 Version : 2.6.2 Release : 4.fc12 URL : http://www.python.org/ Summary : An interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language Description : Python is an interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language often compared to Tcl, Perl, Scheme or Java. Python includes modules, classes, exceptions, very high level dynamic data types and dynamic typing. Python supports interfaces to many system calls and libraries, as well as to various windowing systems (X11, Motif, Tk, Mac and MFC). Programmers can write new built-in modules for Python in C or C++. Python can be used as an extension language for applications that need a programmable interface. This package contains most of the standard Python modules, as well as modules for interfacing to the Tix widget set for Tk and RPM. Note that documentation for Python is provided in the python-docs package. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information: Our build of Python's "curses" module has been changed from using libncurses.so to libncursesw.so, better tracking the upstream configuration of this module. This should fix a segmentation fault which prevented the Canto feed reader from working. Fix Lib/SocketServer.py to avoid trying to use non-existant keyword args for os.waitpid -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog: * Mon Jan 25 2010 David Malcolm <[email protected]> - 2.6.2-4 - change python-2.6.2-config.patch to remove our downstream change to curses configuration in Modules/Setup.dist, so that the curses modules are built using setup.py with the downstream default (linking against libncursesw.so, rather than libncurses.so), rather than within the Makefile; add a test to %install to verify the dso files that the curses module is linked against the correct DSO (bug 539917; changes _cursesmodule.so -> _curses.so) * Fri Jan 8 2010 David Malcolm <[email protected]> - 2.6.2-3 - fix Lib/SocketServer.py to avoid trying to use non-existant keyword args for os.waitpid (patch 52, rhbz:552404, Adrian Reber) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References: [ 1 ] Bug #552504 - SocketServer: TypeError: waitpid() takes no keyword arguments https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=552504 [ 2 ] Bug #539917 - Regression: python curses module compiled against ncurses.so instead of ncursesw.so. Missed UTF-8 support https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=539917 [ 3 ] Bug #541386 - canto segmentation fault https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=541386 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update python' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/. All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at https://fedoraproject.org/keys -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ package-announce mailing list [email protected] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/package-announce
