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Distro maintainers will be patching security bugs for the foreseeable feature. Do you seriously think if there is a security bug found today Debian maintainers

• loeg 7y ago
  Broadly, distros have been ripping out Python2 left and right in advance of 2020. Debian may have a longer support cycle than most and still have Python2 in stable or oldstable.
• shakna 7y ago
  > Do you seriously think if there is a security bug found today Debian maintainers will be like "ah, though luck, I suppose people need to upgrade to py3"?.. > During DebConf19 we¹ have tried to figure out how to manage Python 2 and PyPy module removal from Debian and below is our proposal. [0] Debian are in the midst of a large project [1] to remove Python 2 as quickly as they possibly can. Whilst some bugfixes may happen, Debian are already telling you in no uncertain terms: > port upstream package to python3 > remove any Python 2 use [0] https://lists.debian.org/debian-python/2019/07/msg00080.html https://lists.debian.org/debian-python/2019/07/msg00080.html [1] https://wiki.debian.org/Python/2Removal https://wiki.debian.org/Python/2Removal