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Re: Does Guix provide security support for Python2? For how long?
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zimoun |
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Re: Does Guix provide security support for Python2? For how long? |
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Fri, 15 Jan 2021 18:07:40 +0100 |
Hi,
On Fri, 15 Jan 2021 at 17:02, Jorge P. de Morais Neto
<jorge+list@disroot.org> wrote:
>
> Hi. I use Guix on a foreign distro---Debian buster (current stable). I
> want to upgrade Debian to bullseye (current testing), but bullseye does
> not provide security support for Python 2. I still use Python 2 for
> OfflineIMAP. There is a Python 3 port of OfflineIMAP, but it was done
> very recently and I fear it is probably be buggy. So I would like to
> install Guix Python 2 atop Debian bullseye just for OfflineIMAP. Would
> that work fine? Does Guix, unlike Debian bullseye, still provide
> security support for Python 2? For how long?
As far as I know, Guix provides the security support that upstream releases.
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?
All the best,
simon