# Python LTS and maintenance cycles

**URL:** <https://discuss.python.org/t/python-lts-and-maintenance-cycles/68277>\
**Category:** Ideas\
**Created:** [October 17, 2024, 8:31pm UTC](https://discuss.python.org/t/python-lts-and-maintenance-cycles/68277 "2024-10-17T20:31:05Z")\
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**Post date:** [October 18, 2024, 12:36pm UTC](https://discuss.python.org/t/python-lts-and-maintenance-cycles/68277/8 "2024-10-18T12:36:45Z")

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> [@Nineteendo](#):
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> No, these are download statistics for [requests · PyPI](https://pypi.org/project/requests), the 4th most downloaded package per month: [PyPI Download Stats](https://pypistats.org/top).

You would only need to get requests from PyPI when your distro does not package it. It’s packaged for Fedora, rhel, ubuntu and debian so you may not see downloads from those users.

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