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

[Andrew Hodgson]

Thijs Kinkhorst wrote:
>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.

I thought this may be the case. I was looking at the possibility of whether I could build 2.1.30 even if it was to go in backports until the eventual removal of the package on the next Debian version, but would this removal cause problems for this?

Andrew.