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

[Thijs Kinkhorst]

On Tue, April 21, 2020 18:02, Andrew Hodgson wrote:
> 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?

This is indeed not possible, because Backports requires package versions
to come from testing and mailman is already no longer in testing.

Continued support for any mailman 2.x packages needs to be outside of the
Debian archive since Debian will have removed Python 2 both from stable
and testing/unstable starting from the next release.


Cheers,
Thijs

Cheers,
Thijs