Add provides python2-base for python-base.

'Trusted mode': optional modules loading paths restriction

Updated to 2.7.16 (fixes FTBFS with openssl 1.1.1).
Removed redundant R: alternatives.

Version up (now builds with gcc8);
fix check section LOCALE.

NMU: Rebuild with new openssl 1.1.0.

Made distutils install maximum Python minus python-dev
dev (for building packages).

move distutils into a separate pkg from python-dev

E2K:
lcxa quirk towards lcc-1.23+ compatibility

Fixed heap-use-after-free bug (Fixes: CVE-2018-1000030).

added cleaning os-release parameters (patch25)

NMU: updated runtime devel dependencies.

buildreq's ignore list (thx grenka@):
info files
Kept nis module despite the deprecation of NIS in glibc because it
modules so that the rebuild of dependents will make them
modules will require it for a
Fixed detection of linux distribution (thx mrdrew)
(e2k arch) Link against -lcxa (thx mike@, sem@)
(.spec) Renamed bootstrap knob to bluez, enabled by default (thx mike@)
(.spec) Enabled %check

Version up
Turn off static build that have been lost long ago

python-base: compressed documentation files.

libpython, python-modules: backported upstream fixes
2016-0772, CVE-2016-5636)

Fixed 'random' module regression caused by glibc >= 2.25 (closes: #33355).