Barry A. Warsaw added the comment:

On Feb 10, 2017, at 05:46 PM, Nick Coghlan wrote:

>Note that Fedora doesn't even rebuild all the extension modules when bumping
>CPython to a new maintenance release, let alone rebuilding and re-releasing
>all the pure Python ones. (RPM supports doing that just fine, but it would
>mean shipping thousands of updated binary artifacts instead of just one - the
>new CPython maintenance release)

Debian/Ubuntu doesn't rebuild extension modules either.  We don't ship .pyc
files in binary packages, but instead build them at install time on the user's
machine.

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