[Python-Dev] Issue 11715: building Python from source on multiarch Debian/Ubuntu

[Michael Foord]

On 01/04/2011 13:07, Antoine Pitrou wrote:
> On Fri, 01 Apr 2011 07:57:53 -0400
> Eric Smith<eric at 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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