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

[Georg Brandl]

Am 01.04.2011 13:57, schrieb Michael Foord:
> On 01/04/2011 11:46, Georg Brandl wrote:
>> Am 31.03.2011 19:35, schrieb Éric Araujo:
>>>> I would like to apply this patch (or its moral equivalent) to all active,
>>>> affected branches of Python, meaning 2.5 through 2.7, and 3.1 through 3..3, as
>>>> soon as possible.  Without this, it will be very difficult for anyone on
>>>> future Ubuntu or Debian releases to build Python.  Since it's not a new
>>>> feature, but just a minor fix to the build process, I think it should be okay
>>>> to back port.
>>> 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.
>> I wouldn't say doc fixes are not acceptable, but they are rather pointless
>> since there won't be any more online docs or released docs for those versions.
> In the case that docs are wrong for unmaintained (but still used) 
> versions of Python, is there any reason other than policy not to fix and 
> update online docs?

I think I was unclear: I'm not advocating doing doc fixes in security-only
branches; I'm just explaining why it wouldn't even make sense to do these
fixes.

Let's not make life harder for the RMs of security-only branches...

Georg