On Wed, 2014-08-20 at 21:20 -0600, Orion Poplawski wrote: > Just trying to see what's the status of the python26 package in EPEL5. > It doesn't appear to have been updated for a while: > > * Wed Nov 07 2012 Jeffrey Ness <jeffrey.n...@rackspace.com> - 2.6.8-2 > - Patch 121 forces sys.platform to linux2 > related to issue http://bugs.python.org/issue12326
I'm sorry about the lack of attention from me on this package; I'm deeply involved in GCC upstream right now, and don't have time to work on it. Sorry. I also don't use it; for recent python on RHEL 5 I now prefer the RH Software Collections [1]. I've orphaned the EPEL5 branch within the pkgdb. > python 2.6.9 was released but not updated - > https://www.python.org/download/releases/2.6.9/ > > Upstream has declared it dead, although it is in RHEL6 and so presumably > receives attention from RedHat there. > > There are several open CVE bugs against it. Time to retire or try to > sync to the RHEL6 package? > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&classification=Fedora&component=python26&list_id=2761524&product=Fedora%20EPEL&query_format=advanced > > - Orion > > PS - I started looking into this to see if it is worth trying to create > a python26-django14 package for EL5 to support cobbler-web. [1] https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Software_Collections/1/html/1.0_Release_Notes/chap-RHSCL.html#tabl-RHSCL-Components _______________________________________________ epel-devel mailing list epel-devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/epel-devel