Re: pygopherd in Debian

[John Goerzen <jgoerzen@complete.org>]

Hello,

It looks like active efforts along these lines are happening and 
being coordinated here:

https://github.com/jgoerzen/pygopherd/issues/8

-- John

On Tue, Nov 17 2020, John Goerzen wrote:

> Hi Glenn,
>
> I have basically given up on doing a Python 3 port myself.  The 
> PyGopherd test
> suite uncovered a number of issues in the Python 3 standard 
> library regarding
> non-UTF8 characters in filenames, particularly in ZIP files, and 
> I don't have
> the time to workaround them due to various things going on in 
> life this year.
>
> I would welcome someone else to try, though.
>
> You should be able to install Python 2 from outside Debian and 
> have it continue
> to work fine, however.
>
> Thanks,
>
> John
>
> On Tue, Nov 17 2020, Glenn Holmer wrote:
>
> > On 11/17/20 8:13 AM, Glenn Holmer wrote:
> > > I notice that pygopherd has been removed from the Debian repo:
> > >
> > > https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/pygopherd
> > >
> > > Anybody know how to install it? Does the .deb on GitHub run 
> > > under Python 3?
> > > (I'm running Debian 11 "Bullseye".)
> >
> > https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2020/11/msg00319.html