Well, again, the argument can be extended to botocore as a whole. If we don't trust the maintainers to fix their security issues, we'd better not ship the package at all, maybe? (Note that a frequently encountered suggestion on the web is to simply pull awscli using pip, which currently of course comes down to using the bundled stuff as well - but I can see that in that case at least noone can blame SUSE). But I'll stop arguing here. If you're going to pull the unbundling fixes from github, fine with me.