python security, bug fix, and enhancement update

python:
[2.6.6-20]
Resolves: CVE-2010-3493
[2.6.6-19]
Resolves: CVE-2011-1015
[2.6.6-18]
Resolves: CVE-2011-1521
[2.6.6-17]

• recompile against systemtap 1.4
  Related: rhbz#569695
  [2.6.6-16]
• recompile against systemtap 1.4
  Related: rhbz#569695
  [2.6.6-15]
• fix race condition that sometimes breaks the build with parallel make
  Resolves: rhbz#690315
  [2.6.6-14]
• backport pre-canned ways of salting a password to the ‘crypt’ module
  Resolves: rhbz#681878
  [2.6.6-13]
• move lib2to3/tests to the python-test subpackage
  Related: rhbz#625395
  [2.6.6-12]
• fix a new test in 2.6.6 that was failing on 64-bit big-endian architectures
  Resolves: rhbz#677392
  [2.6.6-11]
• fix incompatibility between 2.6.6 and our non-standard M2Crypto.SSL.SSLTimeoutError
  Resolves: rhbz#681811
  [2.6.6-10]
• add workaround for bug in rhythmbox-0.12 exposed by python 2.6.6
  Resolves: rhbz#684991
  [2.6.6-9]
• prevent tracebacks for the ‘py-bt’ gdb command on x86_64
  Resolves: rhbz#639392
  [2.6.6-8]
• fix a regression in 2.6.6 relative to 2.6.5 in urllib2
  Resolves: rhbz#669847
  [2.6.6-7]
• add an optional ‘timeout’ argument to the subprocess module (patch 131)
  Resolves: rhbz#567229
  [2.6.6-6]
• prevent _sqlite3.so being built with a redundant RPATH of _libdir (patch 130)
• remove DOS batch file ‘idle.bat’
• remove shebang lines from .py files that aren’t executable, and remove
  executability from .py files that don’t have a shebang line
  Related: rhbz#634944
• add ‘Obsoletes: python-ssl’ to core package, as 2.6 contains the ssl module
  Resolves: rhbz#529274
  [2.6.6-5]
• allow the ‘no_proxy’ environment variable to override ‘ftp_proxy’ in
  urllib2 (patch 128)
  Resolves: rhbz#637895
• make garbage-collection assertion failures more informative (patch 129)
  Resolves: rhbz#614680
  [2.6.6-4]
• backport subprocess fixes to use the ‘poll’ system call, rather than ‘select’
  Resolves: rhbz#650588
  [2.6.6-3]
• use an ephemeral port for IDLE, enabling multiple instances to be run
  Resolves: rhbz#639222
• add systemtap static markers, tapsets, and example scripts
  Resolves: rhbz#569695
  [2.6.6-2]
• fix dbm.release on ppc64/s390x
  Resolves: rhbz#626756
• fix missing lib2to3 test files
  Resolves: rhbz#625395
• fix test.test_commands SELinux incompatibility
  Resolves: rhbz#625393
• make ‘pydoc -k’ more robust in the face of broken modules
  Resolves: rhbz#603073
  [2.6.6-1]
• rebase to 2.6.6: (which contains the big whitespace cleanup of r81031)
  http://www.python.org/download/releases/2.6.6/
  • fixup patch 102, patch 11, patch 52, patch 110
  • drop upstreamed patches: patch 113 (CVE-2010-1634), patch 114
    (CVE-2010-2089), patch 115 (CVE-2008-5983), patch 116 (rhbz598564),
    patch 118 (rhbz540518)
  • add fix for upstream bug in test_posix.py introduced in 2.6.6 (patch 120)
    Resolves: rhbz#627301
    python-docs:
    [2.6.6-2]
• rebuild
  [2.6.6-1]
• rebase to 2.6.6 to track the main python package
  Related: rhbz#627301