RELEASED Python 2.4.3, release candidate 1

[Paddy]

I followed the links to the coverity page that shows their table of
errors found, and subsequently fixed in tools used for the LAMP stack.
They say that they informed the maintainers of the software about the
precise errors found and the number of errors has been tracked since
then.

It seems there page has been updated with the results of the latest
Python release o i thought I'd put a marketing spin on the data to show
which projects have been fixing their bugs.
I added the column showing % bugs fixed and sorted on that column to
highlight just what you Python maintainers have achieved:

   Project    Current    Original   Percent    Lines of   Defects /
              defects    defects    fixed      code       KLOC
  AMANDA               0        108    100.00%      88879          0
  Python               0         96    100.00%     269609          0
  Samba                0        216    100.00%     313893          0
  XMMS                 0          6    100.00%     117099          0
  ethereal            11        143     92.31%    1131213       0.01
  icecast              2         12     83.33%      37251       0.05
  SQLite               6         31     80.65%      54257       0.11
  PHP                 47        204     76.96%     426559       0.11
  wxWidgets           30         73     58.90%     310917        0.1
  Net-SNMP            61        148     58.78%     173203       0.35
  Gaim                51        113     54.87%     325646       0.16
  Firefox             50        108     53.70%     305453       0.16
  OpenSSL             35         66     46.97%     200813       0.17
  xine               196        347     43.52%     578738       0.34
  MPlayer            192        284     32.39%     489636       0.39
  gcc                103        140     26.43%     696310       0.15
  NetBSD            2529       3230     21.70%    5078094        0.5
  Perl                70         89     21.35%     483331       0.15
  Linux-2.6          847       1062     20.24%    3171895       0.27
  apache-http         26         32     18.75%     127974        0.2
  X.org             1448       1681     13.86%    2353980       0.62
  Squid               48         53      9.43%     175345       0.27
  Gnome              849        896      5.25%    1311031       0.65
  tcl                 67         69      2.90%     120865       0.55
  OpenLDAP           154        158      2.53%     258144        0.6
  snort               47         48      2.08%      94111        0.5
  FreeBSD            632        635      0.47%    1582166        0.4
  PostgreSQL         294        295      0.34%     816869       0.36
  Inetutils           29         29      0.00%      72681        0.4
  OpenVPN              7          7      0.00%      69905        0.1
  ProFTPD             26         26      0.00%      90027       0.29
  Firebird           194        163    -19.02%     271192       0.72

The original data is from http://scan.coverity.com/ on the day of this
posting.

- Paddy
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