Re: Bug#936604: FYI: Python 3 migration of distributuion

[Osamu Aoki <osamu@debian.org>]

Hi,

It's a fork with a new upstream with some issues.  (Not supported by
the old upstream)

Anyway, I switched out from getmail to other MUA.

No one seems to take over this package maintenance.

So please remove this package.  I am not going to package the new
getmail6.

Regards,

Osamu


On Wed, 2020-10-21 at 22:41 +0200, Moritz Mühlenhoff wrote:
> 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