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From: Jorge P. de Morais Neto <jorge+list@disroot.org>
To: zimoun <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com>, help-guix <help-guix@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Does Guix provide security support for Python2? For how long?
Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2021 14:18:09 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87czy65dbi.fsf@disroot.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJ3okZ0Bp8KbWcbOVPUZ+kG2C=rEUUcdr6Z7uu_aWn2s+_2ZwQ@mail.gmail.com>

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---in the manual or in the website, as well as the
description of the python2 package and maybe also in the description of
all python2-.* packages.

> Using the Guix time-machine, the code that works now should work
> exactly the same in the future, even if Python 2 is removed in the
> future Guix releases.  Does it make sense?

The problem is that OfflineIMAP is Internet software, and therefore, I
believe, it is important to have security support for it (including its
dependencies).

Regards

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  reply	other threads:[~2021-01-15 17:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-01-15 16:00 Does Guix provide security support for Python2? For how long? Jorge P. de Morais Neto
2021-01-15 17:07 ` zimoun
2021-01-15 17:18   ` Jorge P. de Morais Neto [this message]
2021-01-15 18:17     ` dario
2021-01-15 18:28       ` Jorge P. de Morais Neto
2021-01-15 19:56     ` Leo Famulari
2021-01-15 20:06     ` zimoun

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