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Python 3.8.4 bump included backwards incompatible change to setuptools #511

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riconnon opened this issue Aug 20, 2020 · 3 comments
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@riconnon
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Upgrading from the python:3.8.3-alpine3.12 image to python:3.8.4-alpine3.12 results in a major upgrade of the provided setuptools from 47.1.1 to 49.2.0

This means that this "bugfix" release upgrade which includes security patches also makes a backwards incompatible change making it difficult for consumers of this image to perform security updates.

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Further, it occurs to me that if I was simply using the python:3.8-alpine3.12 or python:3.8-alpine tags then this would have manifested even worse, as a silent breakage of my builds without changing anything.

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yosifkit commented Aug 20, 2020

Hmm, we don't update setuptools directly, but it seems that get-pip.py just pulls the newest regardless of pip version being installed (the two images are installing the same version of pip).

Edit: it seems this was on purpose: #186 (comment)

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Closing since get-pip.py is updating setuptools automatically when it is run.

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