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<p style="margin: 0 0 1em 0; color: black;">Aren't RedHat supporting 2.6
within RHEL 6 until 2020?</p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 1em 0; color: black;">In principle I could be
convinced this would be OK though. Particularly if we commit to continuing
to do any security patches they need and the packaging situation isn't
going to cause them too much disruption.</p>
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<p
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28 March 2015 19:30:09 Alex Gaynor <alex.gaynor@gmail.com> wrote:</p>
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dir="ltr">Hi folks,<div><br></div><div>I'd like to propose we
deprecate, with the intention of removing, support for Python 2.6. The
reason for this is that Python 2.6 is no longer receiving support for the
Python core developers in any form, including security
releases.</div><div><br></div><div>We provide a piece of security sensitive
software, and I claim it would be irresponsible to say it's supported
on platforms which are themselves not
supported.</div><div><br></div><div>This would affect our current
downstreams, such as pyOpenSSL, Twisted, and OpenStack, as well as things
we'd like to be our downstreams, such as Paramiko/Fabric. So I'm
hoping some of them will chime in.</div><div><br></div><div>By way of
adding data around this: Django's latest release is 2.7/3.x only,
however there has been some measure of requests to add additional long term
support for a past release which has 2.6 support. I've seen numbers
from Donald that (as of the end of last year) 2.6 is ~10-15% of PyPI
downloads across the
board.</div><div><br></div><div>Thoughts?</div><div><br></div><div>Alex</div><div><div><br></div>--
<br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">"I disapprove of what
you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." --
Evelyn Beatrice Hall (summarizing Voltaire)<br>"The people's good
is the highest law." -- Cicero<br><div>GPG Key fingerprint: 125F 5C67
DFE9 4084</div></div></div>
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