Hi, It's a fork with a new upstream with some issues. (Not supported by the old upstream)
Anyway, I switched out from getmail to other MUA. No one seems to take over this package maintenance. So please remove this package. I am not going to package the new getmail6. Regards, Osamu On Wed, 2020-10-21 at 22:41 +0200, Moritz Mühlenhoff wrote: > On Tue, Nov 19, 2019 at 10:43:49PM +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote: > > 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 <os...@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. > > Hi Osamu, > given that a Py3-compatible version is now available as src:getmail6, > let's go ahead and remove getmail? > > Cheers, > Moritz