python2.6 2.6.2-3ubuntu1 source package in Ubuntu

Changelog

python2.6 (2.6.2-3ubuntu1) karmic; urgency=low

  * Update to 20090923, taken from the 2.6 release branch.
    - Issue #6922: Fix an infinite loop when trying to decode an invalid
      UTF-32 stream with a non-raising error handler like "replace" or
      "ignore".
    - Issue #1590864: Fix potential deadlock when mixing threads and fork().
    - Issue #6844: Do not emit DeprecationWarnings when accessing a "message"
      attribute on exceptions that was set explicitly.
    - Issue #6236, #6348: Fix various failures in the `io` module under AIX
      and other platforms, when using a non-gcc compiler. Patch by egreen.
    - Issue #6851: Fix urllib.urlopen crash on secondairy threads on OSX 10.6
    - Issue #6947: Fix distutils test on windows. Patch by Hirokazu Yamamoto.
    - Issue #4606: Passing 'None' if ctypes argtype is set to POINTER(...)
      does now always result in NULL.
    - Issue #5042: ctypes Structure sub-subclass does now initialize
      correctly with base class positional arguments.
    - Issue #6938: Fix a TypeError in string formatting of a multiprocessing
      debug message.
    - Issue #6944: Fix a SystemError when socket.getnameinfo() was called
      with something other than a tuple as first argument.
    - Issue #6980: Fix ctypes build failure on armel-linux-gnueabi with
      -mfloat-abi=softfp.
  * Rebuild with fixed libffi on armel.
  * Run the benchmark with -C 2 -n 5 -w 4 on slow architectures.

python2.6 (2.6.2-3) experimental; urgency=low

  * Update to 20090919, taken from the 2.6 release branch.
  * Add a conflict to python-setuptools (<< 0.6c9-3), C extension
    builds broken.
  * Add new symbols for update from the branch.

 -- Matthias Klose <email address hidden>   Wed, 23 Sep 2009 20:35:03 +0200