python2 removal

Jon Turney jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk
Mon May 1 17:53:24 GMT 2023


On 30/04/2023 21:32, Adam Dinwoodie wrote:
> On Sun, 30 Apr 2023 at 19:25, Jon Turney <jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk> wrote:
>>
>> 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?
> 
> Yes, they're both on my to-do list, but I've had a whole bunch of real
> life come up over the past few months. If the delay is causing issues,
> though, I can bump them up my priority list…

That's no problem.  Just checking you hadn't changed your mind :)



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