SRU: Update to the final python 2.7.18 release

Hello Matthias, or anyone else affected,

Accepted python2.7 into focal-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/python2.7/2.7.18-1~20.04 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested, what testing has been performed on the package and change the tag from verification-needed-focal to verification-done-focal. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-focal. In either case, without details of your testing we will not be able to proceed.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance for helping!

N.B. The updated package will be released to -updates after the bug(s) fixed by this package have been verified and the package has been in -proposed for a minimum of 7 days.

All autopkgtests for the newly accepted python2.7 (2.7.18-1~20.04) for focal have finished running.
The following regressions have been reported in tests triggered by the package:

mercurial/5.3.1-1ubuntu1 (amd64)

Please visit the excuses page listed below and investigate the failures, proceeding afterwards as per the StableReleaseUpdates policy regarding autopkgtest regressions [1].

https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-archive/proposed-migration/focal/update_excuses.html#python2.7

[1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates#Autopkgtest_Regressions

Thank you!

builds ok, test results look ok.

This bug was fixed in the package python2.7 - 2.7.18-1~20.04

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python2.7 (2.7.18-1~20.04) focal; urgency=medium

  * SRU: LP: #1890272: Update to to the final 2.7.18 release.

 -- Matthias Klose <email address hidden> Tue, 04 Aug 2020 13:16:42 +0200

The verification of the Stable Release Update for python2.7 has completed successfully and the package is now being released to -updates. Subsequently, the Ubuntu Stable Release Updates Team is being unsubscribed and will not receive messages about this bug report. In the event that you encounter a regression using the package from -updates please report a new bug using ubuntu-bug and tag the bug report regression-update so we can easily find any regressions.