Python 2.7 SSL upgrade patch available for testing

[Nick Coghlan]

On 08/18/2014 04:23 PM, Robert Kuska wrote:
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Nick Coghlan" <ncoghlan at redhat.com>
>> To: python-devel at lists.fedoraproject.org
>> Sent: Monday, August 18, 2014 7:57:21 AM
>> Subject: Re: Python 2.7 SSL upgrade patch available for testing
>>
>> On 08/07/2014 06:10 PM, Robert Kuska wrote:
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>> From: "Nick Coghlan" <ncoghlan at redhat.com>
>>>> On 07/30/2014 12:16 AM, Bohuslav Kabrda wrote:
>>>>> So the question is, are we feeling lucky? :) I'd say yes, since rawhide
>>>>> has
>>>>> just recently become future Fedora 22 and not much is going on in there
>>>>> right now. If we break something, we can just revert it quickly and
>>>>> everything will be fine.
>>>>>
>>>>> Is someone strictly against this or shall I move on with patching our
>>>>> rawhide Python?
>>>>
>>>> Patching rawhide would be wonderful. The patch is at last passing
>>>> Python's own test suite, so it shouldn't have broken anything too
>>>> dramatically.
>>>
>>> I am willing to work on this starting next week (atm I am at flock),
>>> I will test it along with some ssl dependent packages.
>>
>> Did anyone get a chance to try this out?
> 
> Hi Nick,
> 
> sorry for the delay.
> 
> I did apply the patch, I have encountered seg fault in unicodeobject.c.
> Right now I am checking for diffs in upstream 2.7 branch between our 
> unicodeobject.c and theirs.
> 
> After that I will update the upstream bug report.

Thanks! The Windows and Mac OS X side of things are still going to
qualify as "interesting" regardless, but we should be able to address a
lot of the stability concerns on the Linux side... once we work out what
it breaks :)

Cheers,
Nick.

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