Your changelog entry for 2.2.1-1 suggests that it was enabled once.
As far as I can tell there's no other terribly sensible way to get at the value of RTLD_NOW in Python 2; I was helping a friend who was writing a complicated thing to do with the Python gdb bindings that needed that and that needed to work in both Python 2 and 3. (In Python 3, it's os.RTLD_NOW.)
Your changelog entry for 2.2.1-1 suggests that it was enabled once.
As far as I can tell there's no other terribly sensible way to get at the value of RTLD_NOW in Python 2; I was helping a friend who was writing a complicated thing to do with the Python gdb bindings that needed that and that needed to work in both Python 2 and 3. (In Python 3, it's os.RTLD_NOW.)