Hello Simon, Am Montag, 3. Januar 2022, 14:47:34 CET schrieb Simon Lees:
The real discussion is about what Python version the system packages have to use.
Yes.
In my case e.g. aehostd is system software. Now try to explain to an auditor that this security relevant system software runs on a unmaintained Python version. Yeah, have fun.
This is simple, the python 3.6 is still maintained just by a different group of people, if significant python 3.6 security issues are found they will be fixed by someone within SUSE, this is a guarantee we give to our customers
Its not just the python 3.6 base packages, as well other packages have to be kept on a version that still runs with 3.6. This is a growing number of packages, as many are dropping support for python 3.6. Who is taking care about them? Cheers Axel