Friday, November 27, 2020

Re: py-dnspython py2/py3 version split

On Fri, Nov 27 2020, Ian McWilliam <I.Mcwilliam@westernsydney.edu.au> wrote:
> Our samba in tree is out of date and discontinued in 2020-03-03. It contains CVEs.
>
> Moving to a stable samba 4.13.x that supports python 3 would be the thing to do. If I remember
> last time Jeremie jca@ attempted this, there were sparc64 issues with the linker.

Regarding samba updates I dropped the ball. ld.bfd isn't happy with
newer samba releases, it generates corrupted samba shared libs. Maybe
I should just admit that I'm not smart enough to grok that quirky BFD
code. :)

Even though I'd like to get rid of this thorn, my opinion is that python
ports that should move to py3-only versions shouldn't be blocked by
software in the tree that requires py2 support. So adding a py2-only
port makes sense.

My two cents,
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