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Bug#936604: FYI: Python 3 migration of distributuion

From	Osamu Aoki <osamu@debian.org>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.bugs.dist, linux.debian.maint.python
Subject	Bug#936604: FYI: Python 3 migration of distributuion
Date	2019-11-19 14:50 +0100
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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.

Osamu

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