After talking about this in the SC today, we agreed to deprecate mailcap under the auspices of PEP 594: https://github.com/python/peps/commit/701999a91dc5f976c00d5bde1510226ebd9c7822 .
On Thu, Apr 14, 2022 at 11:44 AM Brett Cannon <br...@python.org> wrote: > 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? >
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