Comment 8 for bug 1578927

This bug was fixed in the package python2.7 - 2.7.12-1~16.04

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python2.7 (2.7.12-1~16.04) xenial-proposed; urgency=medium

  * SRU: LP: #1591895. Backport 2.7.12 to 16.04 LTS.

python2.7 (2.7.12-1) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Python 2.7.12 release.

python2.7 (2.7.12~rc1-2) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Extend debian/copyright to the files shipped in the wheel files.

python2.7 (2.7.12~rc1-1) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Python 2.7.12 release candidate 1.
    - Issue #20041: Fixed TypeError when frame.f_trace is set to None.
    - Issue #25702: A --with-lto configure option has been added that will
      enable link time optimizations at build time during a make profile-opt.
      Some compilers and toolchains are known to not produce stable code when
      using LTO, be sure to test things thoroughly before relying on it.
      It can provide a few % speed up over profile-opt alone.
    - Issue #26556: Update expat to 2.1.1, fixes CVE-2015-1283.
    - Fix TLS stripping vulnerability in smptlib, CVE-2016-0772.
    - Issue #7356: ctypes.util: Make parsing of ldconfig output independent of
      the locale.
    - Issue #25738: Stop BaseHTTPServer.BaseHTTPRequestHandler.send_error()
      from sending a message body for 205 Reset Content. Also, don't send the
      Content-Type header field in responses that don't have a body.
    - Issue #21313: Fix the "platform" module to tolerate when sys.version
      contains truncated build information.
    - Issue #27211: Fix possible memory corruption in io.IOBase.readline().
    - Issue #5124: Paste with text selected now replaces the selection on X11.
      This matches how paste works on Windows, Mac, most modern Linux apps,
      and ttk widgets.
    - Issue #24759: Make clear in idlelib.idle_test.__init__ that the directory
      is a private implementation of test.test_idle and tool for maintainers.
    - Issue #21916: Added tests for the turtle module.
    - Issue #27229: Fix the cross-compiling pgen rule for in-tree builds.
    - Issue #17500, and https://github.com/python/pythondotorg/issues/945: Remove
      unused and outdated icons.

python2.7 (2.7.11-11) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Update to 20160602 from the 2.7 branch.
    - Issue #26168: Fixed possible refleaks in failing Py_BuildValue() with
      the "N" format unit.
    - Issue #27114: Fix SSLContext._load_windows_store_certs fails with
      PermissionError.
    - Issue #26673: When tk reports font size as 0, change to size 10.
      Such fonts on Linux prevented the configuration dialog from opening.
    - Issue #27044: Add ConfigDialog.remove_var_callbacks to stop memory leaks.
    - In the 'IDLE-console differences' section of the IDLE doc, clarify
      how running with IDLE affects sys.modules and the standard streams.
    - Issue #25507: Fix incorrect change in IOBinding that prevented printing.
      Change also prevented saving shell window with non-ascii characters.
      Augment IOBinding htest to include all major IOBinding functions.
    - Issue #25905: Revert unwanted conversion of ' to ’ RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION
      MARK in README.txt and open this and NEWS.txt with 'ascii'.
      Re-encode CREDITS.txt to utf-8 and open it with 'utf-8'.
  * Rebuild to pick up the GNU triplet change on i386 archs. Closes: #826128.

python2.7 (2.7.11-10) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Update to 20160518 from the 2.7 branch.
    - Issue #27039: Fixed bytearray.remove() for values greater than 127.
    - Issue #14132: Fix urllib.request redirect handling when the target only
      has a query string.
    - Removed the requirements for the ctypes and modulefinder modules to be
      compatible with earlier Python versions.
    - Issue #22274: In the subprocess module, allow stderr to be redirected to
      stdout even when stdout is not redirected.
    - Issue #12045: Avoid duplicate execution of command in
      ctypes.util._get_soname().
    - Issue #26960: Backported #16270 from Python 3 to Python 2, to prevent
      urllib from hanging when retrieving certain FTP files.

python2.7 (2.7.11-9) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Update to 20160509 from the 2.7 branch.
    - Issue #25745: Fixed leaking a userptr in curses panel destructor.
    - Issue #17765: weakref.ref() no longer silently ignores keyword arguments.
    - Issue #26873: xmlrpclib now raises ResponseError on unsupported type tags
      instead of silently return incorrect result.
    - Issue #24114: Fix an uninitialized variable in `ctypes.util`.
    - Issue #26864: In urllib, change the proxy bypass host checking against
      no_proxy to be case-insensitive, and to not match unrelated host names
      that happen to have a bypassed hostname as a suffix.
    - Issue #26804: urllib will prefer lower_case proxy environment variables
      over UPPER_CASE or Mixed_Case ones.
    - Issue #26837: assertSequenceEqual() now correctly outputs non-stringified
      differing items. This affects assertListEqual() and assertTupleEqual().
    - Issue #26822: itemgetter, attrgetter and methodcaller objects no longer
      silently ignore keyword arguments.
    - Issue #26657: Fix directory traversal vulnerability with SimpleHTTPServer
      on Windows. This fixes a regression that was introduced in 2.7.7.
    - Issue #26736: Used HTTPS for external links in the documentation if
      possible.
    - Issue #22359: Avoid incorrect recursive $(MAKE), and disable the rules for
      running pgen when cross-compiling.
    - Issue #26799: Fix python-gdb.py: don't get C types once when the Python
      code is loaded, but get C types on demand. The C types can change if
      python-gdb.py is loaded before the Python executable.
  * Fix issue #26673, runtime error in idle3. LP: #1578927.

python2.7 (2.7.11-8) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Update to 20160417 from the 2.7 branch.
    - Issue #4806: Avoid masking the original TypeError exception when using
      star (*) unpacking and the exception was raised from a generator.
    - Issue #26659: Make the builtin slice type support cycle collection.
    - Issue #26718: super.__init__ no longer leaks memory if called multiple
      times. NOTE: A direct call of super.__init__ is not endorsed!
    - Issue #13410: Fixed a bug in PyUnicode_Format where it failed to properly
      ignore errors from a __int__() method.
    - Issue #19377: Add .svg to mimetypes.types_map.
    - Issue #13952: Add .csv to mimetypes.types_map.
    - Issue #16329: Add .webm to mimetypes.types_map.
    - Issue #23735: Handle terminal resizing with Readline 6.3+ by installing
      our own SIGWINCH handler.
    - Issue #6953: Rework the Readline module documentation to group related
      functions together, and add more details such as what underlying Readline
      functions and variables are accessed.
  * Fix gdb auto-load symlink for the python2.7 binary. LP: #1571198.

 -- Matthias Klose <email address hidden> Fri, 01 Jul 2016 17:12:24 +0200