python2 removal

[Jon Turney]

On 25/02/2023 16:51, Adam Dinwoodie via Cygwin-apps wrote:
> On Sat, 25 Feb 2023 at 16:23, Jon Turney via Cygwin-apps wrote:
>> On 16/01/2023 12:49, Jon Turney via Cygwin-apps wrote:
>>> On 15/01/2023 12:52, Jon Turney via Cygwin-apps wrote:
>>> [...]
>>>> Python 2.7 is the last python2 version, which was sunsetted on January
>>>> 1, 2020.
>>> [...]
[...]
>>
>>   From a brief survey, only offlineimap and urlgrabber (which should
>> probably be named python-urlgrabber, since it contains a python module)
>> seem to be actively maintained enough to support python3.
>>
>> So I will probably remove the others, and consider if it's possible and
>> worthwhile to update those.
>>
>> (I also noted that breezy appears to be the python3 replacement for bzr
>> and getmail6 appears to be the python3 replacement for getmail.)
> 
> I'm happy to adopt both of these. I'll give Jari a little while to
> reclaim them first, not least as I'm not going to have the time to
> spend on packaging these for at least a week or so, but if Jari (or
> anyone else) doesn't claim them first, I'll send an ITA once I've
> checked I can get the packaging to work.
Gentle ping to ask if you are still intending to package these?