On 01/04/2011 13:07, Antoine Pitrou wrote:
On Fri, 01 Apr 2011 07:57:53 -0400
Eric Smith<e...@trueblade.com> wrote:
On 4/1/2011 6:46 AM, Georg Brandl wrote:
Am 31.03.2011 19:35, schrieb Éric Araujo:
I would like to apply this patch (or its moral equivalent) to all active,
affected branches of Python, meaning 2.5 through 2.7, and 3.1 through 3.3, as
soon as possible. Without this, it will be very difficult for anyone on
future Ubuntu or Debian releases to build Python. Since it's not a new
feature, but just a minor fix to the build process, I think it should be okay
to back port.
If I understand the policy correctly, 2.5 and 2.6 are not considered
active branches, so any doc, build or bug fixes are not acceptable.
I wouldn't say doc fixes are not acceptable, but they are rather pointless
since there won't be any more online docs or released docs for those versions.
And I don't see a problem with build fixes. It's not like we're adding
language features. If it makes someone's life easier, then what's the harm?
Well, how is this different from bug fixes?
The policy is that we don't do bug fixes in security branches. We could
change it of course, but introducing special cases through a weird
interpretation of the rule sounds like a recipe for confusion,
theirs and ours.
Possibly. But online docs fixes feels like a very particular special
case that isn't hard to understand or likely to cause confusion.
All the best,
Michael
(and, no, I don't think building an old Python on a new Debian/Ubuntu
system is anymore important than other kinds of bug or build fixes;
let's stop implying that Ubuntu is the dominant OS out there, because
it's really not)
Regards
Antoine.
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