Re: getmail, getmail6, testing, unstable, python-is-python3

[songbird <songbird@anthive.com>]

mick crane wrote:
...
> as far as getmail goes maintainer thinks is an unnecessary panic.
>
> ""getmail goes out of official support by my distro" may be a 
> theoretical
> problem, or a philosophical one, but it it certainly is not a 
> significant
> practical problem.  Keep a Python 2 binary around, download getmail, 
> untar it,
> and run it right out of the directory - that's literally all that's 
> required."
>
> what exactly the python 2 binary is I haven't had need to look as yet.

  note that is his opinion, the debian python and getmail 
packaging workers have decided otherwise and now the
original getmail package is no longer compatible in
testing with other packages so it is removed.  i tried to
use my own version but there was a problem with the
python install missing some module so i gave up and then
i found the python6 package and that took care of the
whole problem.

  the newer getmail6 package is based upon getmail, but
it is compatible with python3.  that is all i care about, 
it works, i don't have to mess around with yet another
dangling bit of stuff to keep after (that's why i use a
distribution and not roll my own after all - i have 
enough of that already).


  songbird