Chris Withers wrote: > That aside, is it actually a python-wide policy to *forbid* patching > older releases where the patch isn't security-related? > > I can understand the "no more releases unless there are security > problems", but what's the harm in applying a patch to an old version > branch on the off chance that a security release might be made some time?
Precisely because if we're doing a security release, we want to be sure that that the *only* change that gets included is the fix to the security problem. If there are other changes hanging around on the branch, then the release would need to go at least a single release candidate cycle (which we don't want to need to do for security releases on old branches). Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncogh...@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia --------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
