[Security-sig] How to document changes related to security in Python changelog?

Ethan Furman ethan at stoneleaf.us
Tue Jun 21 10:52:02 EDT 2016


On 06/21/2016 07:07 AM, Victor Stinner wrote:

> Extract: "Some of the problems that have occurred are things like bug
> reports being sent to the list, but that couldn't be reproduced, or
> distributions not updating their Python packages because it wasn't
> clear to them that there was a security fix made in an upstream
> release. Heimes suggested that security fixes be clearly marked in the
> "News" file that accompanies releases."

> Christian proposed to simply prefix changes with "[Security]".

Seems good to me -- are there any downsides?

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~Ethan~



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