I did ask for a better fix on the bug tracker, about two weeks ago:

    http://bugs.python.org/issue26867

But no better fix seems forthcoming.  So I'll ship that.


/arry

On Fri, Jun 24, 2016 at 2:29 AM, Matthias Klose <doko@ubuntu.com> wrote:
On 24.06.2016 11:14, Larry Hastings wrote:
>
>
> Heads up!  This is a courtesy reminder from your friendly 3.4 and 3.5 release
> manager.  Here's a list of all the changes since 3.5.2rc1 that are currently
> going into 3.5.2 final:
>
>  * 155e665428c6 - Zachary: OpenSSL 1.0.2h build changes for Windows
>  * cae0b7ffeb9f - Benjamin: fix % in Doc/whatsnew/3.5.rst that confuses
>    latex
>  * 783dfd77e4c1 - Terry Reed: allow non-ascii in idlelib/NEWS.txt
>  * <new revision> - Matthias: fix for test_ssl test_options on Ubuntu
>
>
> 3.4.5 final only has one change from 3.4.5rc1: the test_ssl test_options fix
> from Matthias.

won't this break on other platforms where SSL2 is still enabled?