maintainer-feedback requested: [Bug 245776] lang/python27: Update to 2.7.18 (last version of Python 2) with vulnerability fix

Mon Apr 20 23:09:22 UTC 2020

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Bug 245776: lang/python27: Update to 2.7.18 (last version of Python 2) with
vulnerability fix
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=245776


--- Description ---
Python 2.7.18 is the last release of Python 2.

Tested build on 12.1 amd64.

> Fixes a ReDoS vulnerability in :mod:`http.cookiejar`. Patch by Ben Caller.
https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/2.7/Misc/NEWS.d/2.7.18rc1.rst