Ammar Askar <am...@ammaraskar.com> added the comment:

> What bothers me here is that we apparently changed de facto behavior between 
> maintenance releases, in the middle of 3.7's lifecycle, without warning, no 
> doubt because we didn't realize it would break third-party packages.

Arguably, I think the programs that are affected by this vulnerability far 
outnumber the amount of third-party packages that will be broken. The trade-off 
here seems to be between the promise of compatibility and the promise of 
security, choosing compatibility strikes me as odd.

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nosy: +ammar2

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