Re: Does Guix provide security support for Python2? For how long?

[dario]

Hi,


I don't know the answer to your question and you are probably
aware of
that option, but I just wanted to mention that you could consider
switching to mbsync, which (I think) also has better performance
than
offlineimap. It's a bit annoying to migrate the configuration, but
it
does not require that much time (I made that switch some time
ago).


Best,

Dario


Jorge P. de Morais Neto <jorge+list@disroot.org> writes:

> 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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