Comment 39 for bug 1348954

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Barry Warsaw (barry) wrote : Re: [Bug 1348954] Re: update Python3 for trusty

On Oct 14, 2015, at 07:50 PM, Steve Langasek wrote:

>I am going to upload a new SRU that reverts the addition of this config
>file. The code patch can stay in place, it should implement the correct
>behavior with or without the config file actually being present (and I
>don't have an alternative implementation of this policy change to hand
>that we could quickly release). But if we're going to release this SRU
>with that code path, we should not be advising users to use a global
>config file to configure the site policy until this has been discussed
>more broadly.

I guess given Tyler Hicks' out-of-band feedback, we should just turn off
certificate checking for 14.04. Let's let the security team and/or bug
reports drive any change in this behavior.