[Python-Dev] Fixing 2.7.x
Benjamin Peterson
benjamin at python.org
Tue Oct 7 01:32:48 CEST 2014
On Mon, Oct 6, 2014, at 19:13, Ned Deily wrote:
> In article
> <CAKJDb-P6nx5szhBeuxv0fWSJ+-5=U1cD6aY--eD2YqeWwRK4-g at mail.gmail.com>,
> Zachary Ware <zachary.ware+pydev at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 6, 2014 at 12:24 PM, Ned Deily <nad at acm.org> wrote:
> > > 3. security: "fixing issues exploitable by attackers such as crashes,
> > > privilege escalation and, optionally, other issues such as denial of
> > > service attacks. Any other changes are not considered a security risk
> > > and thus not backported to a security branch."
> > > = 3.2.x and 3.3.x
> > 3.1 is still in this category, is it not? According to PEP 375, it's
> > a few months past due for its last release.
> > http://legacy.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0375/#maintenance-releases
>
> I don't think Benjamin was planning any further security releases. But,
> in any case, the PEP should be updated, I guess. Benjamin?
Oh, yeah, I'm really tired of 3.1, so it's over.
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