Re: Accepted python-defaults 2.7.3-5 (source all)
On May 06, 2013, at 03:13 AM, Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote:
>Python2.6 security support ends in October 2013 upstream. Which is
>well ahead of jessie freeze & release. From security point of view
>alone, it would be unwise to ship python2.6 in jessie. Which imho is
>serious enough reason to remove python2.6 given its potential high
>exposure when used by web-frameworks.
As upstream Python 2.6 RM, I can tell you that there will be exactly one
more[1] 2.6 release: 2.6.9. This will be the final security release for that
version and I plan on doing it in October, as stated in PEP 361. Then, thank
Guido, I will finally be able to close that branch. :)
-Barry
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