[Pkg-mailman-hackers] Bug#936979: mailman: Python2 removal in sid/bullseye

Moritz Mühlenhoff jmm at inutil.org
Wed Mar 25 22:06:57 GMT 2020


On Fri, Aug 30, 2019 at 07:25:25AM +0000, Matthias Klose wrote:
> Package: src:mailman
> Version: 1:2.1.29-1
> Severity: normal
> Tags: sid bullseye
> User: debian-python at lists.debian.org
> Usertags: py2removal
> 
> Python2 becomes end-of-live upstream, and Debian aims to remove
> Python2 from the distribution, as discussed in
> https://lists.debian.org/debian-python/2019/07/msg00080.html
> 
> Your package either build-depends, depends on Python2, or uses Python2
> in the autopkg tests.  Please stop using Python2, and fix this issue
> by one of the following actions.

mailman 2.1 won't get ported to Python 3 and Buster has mailman 2 and 3,
so allows for an upgrade path within a stable release.

So let's remove mailman from unstable now?

Cheers,
        Moritz



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