[Python-Dev] Should r53624 be applied to release branches?

[Aaron Bingham]

skip at pobox.com wrote:
>     Aaron> We recently had a production failure caused by the issue fixed in
>     Aaron> r53624 on the trunk [1].  I see that this patch has also been
>     Aaron> applied to py3k-struni.  Should this patch be merged to the
>     Aaron> release branches?  In the meantime we will have to patch
>     Aaron> subprocess.py ourselves.
>
> In theory, I'm in favor of backporting, but how far back do you need/want to
> apply it?  There will clearly be more 2.5 releases.  I don't think any more
> 2.4 releases are planned.
>   
We will only be supporting 2.4 for a few months more, so as far as we 
are concerned a backport to 2.5 would be sufficient.

Thanks,

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