Re: FYI: Python 3 migration of distributuion

[Moritz Mühlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org>]

On Tue, Nov 19, 2019 at 10:43:49PM +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 17, 2019 at 02:28:44PM +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > On Wed, Nov 13, 2019 at 11:11:43AM -0600, Charles Cazabon wrote:
> > > Osamu Aoki <osamu@debian.org> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Currently, getmail is a candidate for removal from the upcoming Debian
> > > > release if it is not updated to support python 3 by someone (not
> > > > necessary by upstream).
> > >
> > > Thanks for the update, Osamu.  I have actually been playing with a prototype
> > > refactoring of getmail to not just support but require a recent Python 3.x
> > > version.  Such a project would give me the opportunity to remove a lot of
> > > historical cruft and backwards-compatibility code that getmail has accumulated
> > > over 20+ years.
> >
> > That's great.  (I thought you rejected idea to move to 3.0.)
> >
> > I tried to do it around getmail 5.5 days.  (I didn't finish it)
> 
> 
> FYI: I found this repo
> https://gitlab.com/dkg/getmail/commits/python3
> I think this is better work than my local work.

Hi Osamu,
given that a Py3-compatible version is now available as src:getmail6,
let's go ahead and remove getmail?

Cheers,
        Moritz