ply EOL
Metadata
- package: ply
- releases: all
Current State
- The code is officially not maintained, overall obsoleted by similar projects, and the reference repository is read-only: https://github.com/dabeaz/ply
- No fix nor official accept/reject review for CVE-2025-56005: https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/01/23/4
Obstacles Preventing Continued Support
- Dead upstream
Alternative Courses of Action
- Not considered
Potential Impacts
Impacts as taking no action
- Lots of reverse dependencies, but no important issue for now, so no real impact
- No fix in case of future important CVE
Impacts of full EOL
- Same as taking no action
Additional impacts
- Do not consider python-ply for future sponsoring
Edited by Sylvain Beucler