[Pkg-mailman-hackers] Bug#953376: Mailman 2 will be removed from Debian

[Thijs Kinkhorst]

Hi,

On Sun, March 8, 2020 20:01, Scott Kitterman wrote:
> Package: src:mailman
> Version: 1:2.1.29-1
> Severity: serious
> Justification: Policy 2.2.1
>
> This package Depends/Build-Depends on python-dnspython which is an NBS
> cruft package.  Please update your package to use python3-dnspython, which
> is still provided (if the package will be ported to python3).

Mailman 2.1.x is Python 2 only.

Upstream has explicitly indicated there will be no effort to port it to
Python 3:
https://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/2019-April/084333.html

So it seems the time has come to remove Mailman 2 from Debian, and let
people migrate to Mailman 3.


Cheers,
Thijs