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Bug#936604: getmail: Python2 removal in sid/bullseye

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On Wed 2019-11-13 15:31:04 +0100, Iustin Pop wrote:
> On 2019-11-13 15:06:54, Thomas Goirand wrote:
>> On 11/12/19 4:37 PM, Osamu Aoki wrote:
>> > The related binary packages are available in 2 binary names (depending on release)
>> >  getmail4 (version=4,5) popcon installed ~2000
>> >  getmail  (version=3,5) popcon installed ~1000
>> > 
>> > https://qa.debian.org/popcon-graph.php?packages=getmail%20getmail4&show_installed=on&want_legend=on&want_ticks=on&date_fmt=%25Y-%25m&beenhere=1
>> > 
>> > I think this qualifies for "py2keep".
>> 
>> IMO, this qualifies for RM-RoM. getmail is an alternative to fetchmail,
>> which is still available in Debian (and with 4 times the number of
>> installed package in popcon...). So I see no reason to keep getmail
>> then. Maybe tell this to upstream, and they may think another time.
>
> Uh, no. Functionality-wise, they're quite different. getmail is (AFAIK)
> the only tool that works for gmail with ASPs disabled (i.e. with OAUTH).
>
> Heck, I'd be very willing to maintain Py3 patches myself, because I need
> this tool.

Thanks for the clarification about what you need from this tool.  I
stopped using getmail several months ago, and i'm in the process of
taking my name out of the uploaders list.  Sorry to bail on it, Osamu!
I just don't feel write being named as responsible for it when i no
longer even have python2 on many systems that i care about.

Upstream appears to indicate that getmail for python3 is likely to be a
nearly complete rewrite.

For myself, i've been using the very simple imap-dl (now in mailscripts
0.18, i'm the main author, and Sean Whitton is a very capable
maintainer).  But imap-dl doesn't have the OAUTH mechanism for gmail
built in.  If you wanted to port that mechanism into imap-dl, i'd be
happy to review it, though!

Regards,

      --dkg

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Bug#936604: getmail: Python2 removal in sid/bullseye Osamu Aoki <osamu@debian.org> - 2019-11-12 16:40 +0100
  Bug#936604: getmail: Python2 removal in sid/bullseye Mattia Rizzolo <mattia@debian.org> - 2019-11-12 17:10 +0100
    Bug#936604: getmail: Python2 removal in sid/bullseye Osamu Aoki <osamu@debian.org> - 2019-11-13 15:20 +0100
  Bug#936604: getmail: Python2 removal in sid/bullseye Ondrej Novy <novy@ondrej.org> - 2019-11-13 09:40 +0100
    Bug#936604: getmail: Python2 removal in sid/bullseye Osamu Aoki <osamu@debian.org> - 2019-11-13 15:30 +0100
  Re: getmail: Python2 removal in sid/bullseye Iustin Pop <iustin@debian.org> - 2019-11-13 15:40 +0100
    Bug#936604: getmail: Python2 removal in sid/bullseye Osamu Aoki <osamu@debian.org> - 2019-11-13 16:30 +0100
      Bug#936604: getmail: Python2 removal in sid/bullseye Iustin Pop <iustin@debian.org> - 2019-11-14 00:00 +0100
    Bug#936604: getmail: Python2 removal in sid/bullseye Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg@fifthhorseman.net> - 2020-02-19 22:40 +0100

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