There is a new pull request by leahneukirchen against master on the void-packages repository https://github.com/leahneukirchen/void-packages python2 https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/pull/29308 Move Python 2 to Active State cPython ActiveState is running a branch of cPython that has a bunch of security fixes, at https://github.com/ActiveState/cpython/ This is very convenient to use for our python package, so let's do it. A patch file from https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/pull/29308.patch is attached