This bug was fixed in the package python2.7 - 2.7.12-1~16.04 --------------- 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 - Issue #17500, and https://github.com/python/pythondotorg/issues/945: Remove unused and outdated icons.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