On 2017-05-03 12:43, Thomas Nyberg wrote: > On 05/03/2017 11:47 AM, Wolfgang Maier wrote: >> On 03.05.2017 17:11, Thomas Nyberg wrote: >>> On 05/03/2017 11:04 AM, Daiyue Weng wrote: >>>> nope, I was thinking it might be good to update to 3.5.3 for security >>>> reasons? >>>> >>> (CCing back in python-list since I accidentally dropped it.) >>> >>> I wouldn't worry about it. Package managers tend to usually take care of >>> security updates. (Of course there is criticism of Linux Mint saying >>> they're not as great at this...) Looking at Ubuntu 16.04, they are still >>> on 3.5.1 (plus Ubuntu's own patches): >>> >>> http://packages.ubuntu.com/xenial/python3 >>> >> Maybe I'm mistaken here, but I don't think that is fully true. With an >> LTS version of Ubuntu you I don't think you will *ever* get upgraded to >> a new Python version. Instead Canonical will backport changes from new >> maintainance releases like 3.5.2/3.5.3 to older releases of the same >> minor version (like the 3.5 series). So while the package for Python3.5 >> for Ubuntu 16.04 will seem pinned at version 3.5.1 over the lifetime of >> the OS, the actual Python version you are running may be newer. In fact, >> on my 16.04: >> >> % apt list python3 >> python3/xenial,now 3.5.1-3 amd64 [installed] >> >> % python3 -V >> Python 3.5.2 >> >> I have no clue how Mint handles this though. >> >> Wolfgang >> > Interesting...learn something new every day! I knew that they would > backport security updates, but I never realized they would actually use > a newer (micro) version of the interpreter while retaining the original > number on the package. (Of course using a newer micro version really > just means officially backporting all those patches...which might mean > basically the same thing as just using the newer micro release and > adding their own changes.) > > Anyway thanks for pointing this out! This is exactly the kind of > misconception that could fester for a long time without my every > realizing it. > > Cheers, > Thomas
This isn't quite true -- Ubuntu 14.04 shipped with Python 3.4.0, but was updated at some point to 3.4.3 (which will be installed automatically through normal update mechanisms). MMR... -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
