El jue, 14 abr 2022 a las 11:47, Brett Cannon (<br...@python.org>) escribió:

> A CVE has been opened against mailcap (see
> https://github.com/python/cpython/issues/68966 for details). I'm not
> aware of anyone trying to maintain the module and Victor did a search
> online and didn't find any use of the module in the top 5000 projects on
> PyPI (see the issue). The module is also under 300 lines of Python code
> that only  (https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/main/Lib/mailcap.py),
> so vendoring wouldn't be burdensome.
>
> As such, I'm proposing we deprecate mailcap in 3.11 and remove it in 3.13.
> Any explicit objections?
>

Agree on deprecating. I searched grep.app and found no significant usage.

Do you know why this module wasn't included in PEP 594? Should we do
another audit of old modules to deprecate them before they cause problems?


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