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

[Barry Warsaw]

On Apr 01, 2011, at 08:37 AM, Nick Coghlan wrote:

>On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 3:35 AM, Éric Araujo <merwok at netwok.org> wrote:
>> 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.
>
>Actual build fixes may be acceptable, if they're needed to allow
>people to build from a version control checkout or from source (since
>they need to be able to do that in order to apply security patches).
>
>However, the combination of "running on Ubuntu 11.04+" and "need to
>build security patched version of old Python" seems unlikely.

I'll just plead as RM for 2.6 that it's not as unlikely as it seems :).

I'm happy to defer to MvL on its (non) applicability to 2.5.

Cheers,
-Barry
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