Re: Does Guix provide security support for Python2? For how long?

2021-01-15 Thread zimoun
Hi, On Fri, 15 Jan 2021 at 18:18, Jorge P. de Morais Neto wrote: > Em [2021-01-15 sex 18:07:40+0100], zimoun escreveu: > > > As far as I know, Guix provides the security support that upstream > > releases. > > I too suppose so in general. But I would like a more authoritative > answer for the sp

Re: Does Guix provide security support for Python2? For how long?

2021-01-15 Thread Leo Famulari
On Fri, Jan 15, 2021 at 02:18:09PM -0300, Jorge P. de Morais Neto wrote: > Em [2021-01-15 sex 18:07:40+0100], zimoun escreveu: > > > As far as I know, Guix provides the security support that upstream > > releases. > > I too suppose so in general. But I would like a more authoritative > answer fo

Re: Does Guix provide security support for Python2? For how long?

2021-01-15 Thread Jorge P . de Morais Neto
Hi. Em [2021-01-15 sex 19:17:41+0100], dario escreveu: > I don't know the answer to your question and you are probably aware of > that option, but I just wanted to mention that you could consider > switching to mbsync, which (I think) also has better performance than > offlineimap. It's a bit an

Re: Does Guix provide security support for Python2? For how long?

2021-01-15 Thread dario
Hi, I don't know the answer to your question and you are probably aware of that option, but I just wanted to mention that you could consider switching to mbsync, which (I think) also has better performance than offlineimap. It's a bit annoying to migrate the configuration, but it does not requir

Re: Does Guix provide security support for Python2? For how long?

2021-01-15 Thread Jorge P . de Morais Neto
Hi. Em [2021-01-15 sex 18:07:40+0100], zimoun escreveu: > As far as I know, Guix provides the security support that upstream > releases. I too suppose so in general. But I would like a more authoritative answer for the specific case of Python2. And, in fact, this should be publicly documented-

Re: Does Guix provide security support for Python2? For how long?

2021-01-15 Thread zimoun
Hi, On Fri, 15 Jan 2021 at 17:02, Jorge P. de Morais Neto wrote: > > Hi. I use Guix on a foreign distro---Debian buster (current stable). I > want to upgrade Debian to bullseye (current testing), but bullseye does > not provide security support for Python 2. I still use Python 2 for > OfflineI

Does Guix provide security support for Python2? For how long?

2021-01-15 Thread Jorge P. de Morais Neto
Hi. I use Guix on a foreign distro---Debian buster (current stable). I want to upgrade Debian to bullseye (current testing), but bullseye does not provide security support for Python 2. I still use Python 2 for OfflineIMAP. There is a Python 3 port of OfflineIMAP, but it was done very recently