python2 removal

[Jon Turney]

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.
> [...]
>> 2) Looking for packages whose names don't start with 'python', but 
>> where the current version installs something into 
>> /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ and/or into /usr/bin/ with a shebang 
>> containing 'python2', the following packages appear to need rebuilding 
>> for python3:
> 
> Hi maintainers,
> 
> Please consider rebuilding your packages listed below for python3.
> 
> If you are no longer interested in being a maintainer for these (or all 
> of your) Cygwin packages, please let us know, so we can update our 
> records and stop bothering you about them!
> 
>> package             source package     maintainer
>>
>> bzr                                    Jari Aalto
>> cfget                                  Jari Aalto
>> codeville                              Jari Aalto
>> getmail                                Jari Aalto
>> offlineimap                            Jari Aalto
>> tailor                                 Jari Aalto
>> urlgrabber                             Jari Aalto
>>

Hi Jari,

In the absence of any response, I have assumed these are all orphaned.

If that's not what you wanted to happen, please let me know.

 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.)