Path: csiph.com!weretis.net!feeder6.news.weretis.net!feeder7.news.weretis.net!news.mixmin.net!aioe.org!bofh.it!news.nic.it!robomod From: Osamu Aoki Newsgroups: linux.debian.bugs.dist,linux.debian.maint.python Subject: Bug#936604: FYI: Python 3 migration of distributuion Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2019 14:50:01 +0100 Message-ID: References: X-Original-To: getmail@lists.pyropus.ca X-Mailbox-Line: From debian-bugs-dist-request@lists.debian.org Tue Nov 19 13:45:32 2019 Old-Return-Path: X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: -4.2 Reply-To: Osamu Aoki , 936604@bugs.debian.org Resent-To: debian-bugs-dist@lists.debian.org X-Debian-Pr-Message: followup 936604 X-Debian-Pr-Package: src:getmail X-Debian-Pr-Keywords: bullseye sid X-Debian-Pr-Source: getmail X-Spam-Bayes: score:0.0000 Tokens: new, 8; hammy, 150; neutral, 56; spammy, 0. spammytokens: hammytokens:0.000-+--python3, 0.000-+--H*u:1.10.1, 0.000-+--H*UA:1.10.1, 0.000-+--H*u:2018-07-13, 0.000-+--H*UA:2018-07-13 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.10.1 (2018-07-13) X-Debian-Message: from BTS X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/1569964 List-ID: List-URL: Approved: robomod@news.nic.it Lines: 26 Organization: linux.* mail to news gateway Sender: robomod@news.nic.it X-Original-Cc: Iustin Pop , 936604@bugs.debian.org, debian-python X-Original-Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2019 22:43:49 +0900 X-Original-Message-ID: <20191119134349.GA6266@goofy.osamu.debian.net> X-Original-References: <20191113152107.GA3944@goofy.osamu.debian.net> <20191113171143.GA10850@pyropus.ca> <20191117052844.GA3549@goofy.osamu.debian.net> <20191117052844.GA3549@goofy.osamu.debian.net> Xref: csiph.com linux.debian.bugs.dist:983976 linux.debian.maint.python:12029 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 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. Osamu