Re: [PATCH 1/2] gnu: python-2: Update to 2.7.11

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hartmut Goebel <address@hidden> skribis:

> Am 22.04.2016 um 08:52 schrieb Ricardo Wurmus:
>> Rebuilding the Python package would result in a forced rebuild of all
>> dependent packages.  Our build farm isn’t fast enough to rebuild that
>> much in time, so we would have an uncomfortable window during which a
>> lot of packages would have to be built from source.  By having a
>
> Thanks for the explanation, this is quite reasonable. I'll check core
> updates the next time.

“python updates” even.  :-)

> Regarding the bug-fix updates for Python: I'd not expect any problems,
> since these updates are bug-fixes only and the byte-code does not change
> within a series (2.7.x, 3.4.x). So grafting could be an option here, too.

I would prefer to restrict grafts to security fixes, primarily because
they have possibly surprising side effects on the UI.

Ludo’.