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Bug #1426294: unable to import gtk.Window -> gio: TypeError: type 'gio.MemoryOutputStream' is not dynamically allocated but its base type '__main__.GPollableOutputStream' is dynamically allocated

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127. By Matthias Klose on 2015-04-02

* Update to 20150401, taken from the 2.7 release branch.
  - Issue #23629: Fix the default __sizeof__ implementation for
    variable-sized objects.
  - Issue #21526: Tkinter now supports new boolean type in Tcl 8.5.
  - Issue #23838: linecache now clears the cache and returns an empty
    result on MemoryError.
  - Issue #23742: ntpath.expandvars() no longer loses unbalanced single
    quotes.
  - Issue #21802: The reader in BufferedRWPair now is closed even when
    closing writer failed in BufferedRWPair.close().
  - Issue #23671: string.Template now allows to specify the "self" parameter
    as keyword argument. string.Formatter now allows to specify the "self"
    and the "format_string" parameters as keyword arguments.
  - Issue #21560: An attempt to write a data of wrong type no longer cause
    GzipFile corruption.
  - Issue #23647: Increase imaplib's MAXLINE to accommodate modern mailbox
    sizes.
  - Issue #23539: If body is None, http.client.HTTPConnection.request now
    sets Content-Length to 0 for PUT, POST, and PATCH headers to avoid
    411 errors from some web servers.
  - Issue #23136: _strptime now uniformly handles all days in week 0,
    including Dec 30 of previous year.
  - Issue #23138: Fixed parsing cookies with absent keys or values in
    cookiejar.
  - Issue #23051: multiprocessing.Pool methods imap() and imap_unordered()
    now handle exceptions raised by an iterator.
  - Issue #22928: Disabled HTTP header injections in httplib.
  - Issue #23615: Module tarfile now can be reloaded with imp.reload().
  - Issue #23799: Added test.test_support.start_threads() for running and
    cleaning up multiple threads.
  - Issue #22390: test.regrtest now emits a warning if temporary files or
    directories are left after running a test.
  - Issue #23583: Added tests for standard IO streams in IDLE.
  - Issue #23583: Fixed writing unicode to standard output stream in IDLE.
* Re-apply the fix for issue #22079. This is now a warning instead of an
  error. LP: #1426294.
* Fix issue #23842, SystemError in os.minor, os.major. LP: #1435242.

126. By Matthias Klose on 2015-03-25

When using GCC versions older than 4.9 for extension builds, automagically
mangle -fstack-protector-strong to -fstack-protector.

125. By Matthias Klose on 2015-03-09

* Update to 20150309, taken from the 2.7 release branch.
  - Issue #22853: Fixed a deadlock when use multiprocessing.Queue at import
    time.
  - Issue #23476: In the ssl module, enable OpenSSL's
    X509_V_FLAG_TRUSTED_FIRST flag on certificate stores when it is available.
  - Issue #23576: Avoid stalling in SSL reads when EOF has been reached
    in the SSL layer but the underlying connection hasn't been closed.
  - Issue #23504: Added an __all__ to the types module.
  - Issue #23367: Fix possible overflows in the unicodedata module.
* debian/tests: Use init system agnostic "service" command instead of
  upstart specific "stop". Also drop unnecessary "status" call right after
  stopping apport.

124. By Iain Lane on 2015-02-27

* Revert change from previous upload
  - Issue #22079: PyType_Ready() now checks that statically allocated type has
    no dynamically allocated bases.
  As it causes 'gio' from pygobject-2 to fail to initialise, which breaks
  several consuming applications. (LP: #1426294)

123. By Matthias Klose on 2015-02-26

* Update to 20150226, taken from the 2.7 release branch.
  - Issue #23055: Fixed a buffer overflow in PyUnicode_FromFormatV.
  - Issue #23048: Fix jumping out of an infinite while loop in the pdb.
  - Issue #23458: On POSIX, the file descriptor kept open by os.urandom() is
    now set to non inheritable.
  - Issue #22113: struct.pack_into() now supports new buffer protocol (in
    particular accepts writable memoryview).
  - Issues #814253, #9179: Warnings now are raised when group references and
    conditional group references are used in lookbehind assertions in regular
    expressions.
  - Issue #23215: Multibyte codecs with custom error handlers that ignores
    errors consumed too much memory and raised SystemError or MemoryError.
  - Issue #5700: io.FileIO() called flush() after closing the file.
    flush() was not called in close() if closefd=False.
  - Issue #21548: Fix pydoc.synopsis() and pydoc.apropos() on modules with
    empty docstrings.
  - Issue #22885: Fixed arbitrary code execution vulnerability in the dumbdbm
    module.
  - Issue #23481: Remove RC4 from the SSL module's default cipher list.
  - Issue #21849: Fixed xmlrpclib serialization of non-ASCII unicode strings
    in the multiprocessing module.
  - Issue #21840: Fixed expanding unicode variables of form $var in
    posixpath.expandvars(). Fixed all os.path implementations on
    unicode-disabled builds.
  - Issue #23363: Fix possible overflow in itertools.permutations.
  - Issue #23364: Fix possible overflow in itertools.product.
  - Issue #23365: Fixed possible integer overflow in
    itertools.combinations_with_replacement.
  - Issue #23366: Fixed possible integer overflow in itertools.combinations.
  - Issue #23191: fnmatch functions that use caching are now threadsafe.
  - Issue #18518: timeit now rejects statements which can't be compiled
    outside a function or a loop (e.g. "return" or "break").
  - Issue #19996: Make :mod:`httplib` ignore headers with no name rather than
    assuming the body has started.
  - Issue #20188: Support Application-Layer Protocol Negotiation (ALPN) in the
    ssl module.
  - Issue #23248: Update ssl error codes from latest OpenSSL git master.
  - Issue #23098: 64-bit dev_t is now supported in the os module.
  - Issue #23063: In the disutils' check command, fix parsing of reST with
    code or code-block directives.
  - Issue #21356: Make ssl.RAND_egd() optional to support LibreSSL. The
    availability of the function is checked during the compilation.
  - Backport the context argument to ftplib.FTP_TLS.
  - Issue #23111: Maximize compatibility in protocol versions of
    ftplib.FTP_TLS.
  - Issue #23112: Fix SimpleHTTPServer to correctly carry the query string
    and fragment when it redirects to add a trailing slash.
  - Issue #22585: On OpenBSD 5.6 and newer, os.urandom() now calls
    getentropy(), instead of reading /dev/urandom, to get pseudo-random bytes.
  - Issue #23093: In the io, module allow more operations to work on detached
    streams.
  - Issue #23071: Added missing names to codecs.__all__.
  - Issue #23016: A warning no longer produces an AttributeError when
    sys.stderr is None.
  - Issue #21032. Fixed socket leak if HTTPConnection.getresponse() fails.
    Original patch by Martin Panter.
  - Issue #22609: Constructors and update methods of mapping classes in the
    collections module now accept the self keyword argument.
  - Issue #23006: Improve the documentation and indexing of dict.__missing__.
    Add an entry in the language datamodel special methods section.
    Revise and index its discussion in the stdtypes mapping/dict section.
    Backport the code example from 3.4.
  - Issue #21514: The documentation of the json module now refers to new
    JSON RFC 7159 instead of obsoleted RFC 4627.
  - Issue #6639: Module-level turtle functions no longer raise TclError after
    closing the window.
  - Issue #22314: pydoc now works when the LINES environment variable is set.
  - Issue #18905: "pydoc -p 0" now outputs actually used port.
  - Issue #23345: Prevent test_ssl failures with large OpenSSL patch level
    values (like 0.9.8zc).
  - Issue #23392: Added tests for marshal C API that works with FILE*.
  - Issue #18982: Add tests for CLI of the calendar module.
  - Issue #19949: The test_xpickle test now tests compatibility with installed
    Python 2.7 and reports skipped tests.
  - Issue #11578: Backported test for the timeit module.
  - Issue #22943: bsddb tests are locale independend now.
  - Issue #20577: Configuration of the max line length for the FormatParagraph
    extension has been moved from the General tab of the Idle preferences
    dialog to the FormatParagraph tab of the Config Extensions dialog.
  - Issue #16893: Update Idle doc chapter to match current Idle and add new
    information.
  - Issue #23180: Rename IDLE "Windows" menu item to "Window".
  - Issue #15506: Use standard PKG_PROG_PKG_CONFIG autoconf macro in the
    configure script.
  - Issue #22079: PyType_Ready() now checks that statically allocated type has
    no dynamically allocated bases.
* Remove LTO sections from the static libraries. Closes: #698395.

122. By Matthias Klose on 2014-12-11

Python 2.7.9 release.

121. By Matthias Klose on 2014-11-26

* Python 2.7.9 release candidate 1.
  - Testsuite updates.
  - Issue #16056: Rename test methods to avoid conflict.
  - Issue #20351: Add examples for csv.DictReader and csv.DictWriter.
  - PEP 476: verify certificates by default (#22417).
  - Give urllib.urlopen a context parameter (closes #22927).
  - Allow hostname to be passed to SSLContext even if OpenSSL doesn't
    support SNI (closes #22921).
  - Allow passing cert/ssl information to urllib2.urlopen and
    httplib.HTTPSConnection (backport of issues #9003 and #22366).
* Let libpython2.7-stdlib break python-urllib3 (<< 1.9.1-3). Closes: #770157.
* Ignore the test_threading_local test failure in the Debian CI environment.
  Succeeds even there when repeated.
* Don't pass default compiler search directories in the pkgconfig file.
  Closes: #770935.

120. By Matthias Klose on 2014-11-18

* Update to 20141118, taken from the 2.7 branch.
  - Issue #12728: Different Unicode characters having the same uppercase
    but different lowercase are now matched in case-insensitive regular
    expressions.
  - Issue #22821: Fixed fcntl() with integer argument on 64-bit big-endian
    platforms.
  - Issues #814253, #9179: Group references and conditional group references
    now work in lookbehind assertions in regular expressions.
  - Issue #22769: Fixed ttk.Treeview.tag_has() when called without arguments.
  - Issue #22787: Allow the keyfile argument of SSLContext.load_cert_chain
    to be None.
  - Issue #22775: Fixed unpickling of Cookie.SimpleCookie with protocol 2.
  - Issue #22776: Brought excluded code into the scope of a try block in
    SysLogHandler.emit().
  - Issue #17381: Fixed ranges handling in case-insensitive regular
    expressions.
  - Issue #19329: Optimized compiling charsets in regular expressions.
  - Issue #22410: Module level functions in the re module now cache compiled
    locale-dependent regular expressions taking into account the locale.
  - Issue #8876: distutils now falls back to copying files when hard linking
    doesn't work. This allows use with special filesystems such as
    VirtualBox shared folders.
  - Issue #22193: Fixed integer overflow error in sys.getsizeof().
* Backport the ensurepip patch from 3.4.
* Disable ensurepip in Debian, at least for the upcoming release.
* Fix maintainer scripts for byte-code removal. Closes: #769078.
* Allow building and testing without SSLv3 support (Kurt Roeckx).
  Closes: #768611.
* Let distutils.sysconfig.get_python_inc() honor the "prefix" argument.
  Closes: #769720.

119. By Matthias Klose on 2014-10-17

Pass -ffat-lto-objects for LTO enabled builds with GCC 4.9.

118. By Matthias Klose on 2014-10-07

Update to 20141007, taken from the 2.7 branch.