[PKG-Openstack-devel] Comments regarding python-future_0.14.3-1_amd64.changes

[Gaudenz Steinlin]

Hi Paul

Paul Richards Tagliamonte <ftpmaster at ftp-master.debian.org> writes:

> This package looks like a security nightmare.
>
> This is a copy of the Python 3 stdlib for Python 2?

I don't think it is. I did not look at the source, but from the
documentation it is  a compatibility layer to have a Python 3 codebase
run on Python 2. I gues in the Openstack context it's used to avoid
having to do one big switchover from Python 2 to Python 3. So to be able
to convert some modules to Python 3 while still being able to run them
on Python 2 because not everything is converted yet.

It would help if you could formulate a bit more specific concerns than
just "security nightmare" and "copy of stdlib".

See http://python-future.org/ for more documentation.

Gaudenz