[python-committers] "Gratuitous"? incompatibilities in the "fix only" releases

[Jesus Cea]

On 29/07/15 18:50, Guido van Rossum wrote:
> I believe that in this particular case, the bug was fixed (by tightening
> the requirements for headers) because the bug can lead to security
> vulnerabilities. I think you can find more by Googling for keywords like
> "http header injection". The more recent Python 2.7 bugfix releases have
> specific exemptions from the backwards compatibility requirements for
> security fixes -- because their lifespan will still be many years (EOL
> of 2.7 is summer 2020).

That argument is valuable but it fails when considering that this fix
will be present in 3.4.4 too, with a normal EOL. I am OK with that,
though. As I said, I sent my first message for policy verification and
to raise awareness.

:-).

PS: I rarely read python-dev. Too much traffic for me :-(.

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