Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2019 17:08:17 +0100
From: Steffen Nurpmeso <steffen@sdaoden.eu>
To: "A. Wilcox" <awilfox@adelielinux.org>
Cc: Drew DeVault <sir@cmpwn.com>, alpine-devel@lists.alpinelinux.org
Subject: Re: [alpine-devel] Normalizing Python packages in aports
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Steffen Nurpmeso wrote in <20190311160447.h55sm%steffen@sdaoden.eu>:
 |A. Wilcox wrote in <83ECE5F4-ED37-4DA8-AD42-894EC106FDE9@adelielinux.org>:
 ||On Mar 11, 2019, at 10:29 AM, Drew DeVault <[1]sir@cmpwn.com[/1]> wrote:
 ||
 ||  [1] mailto:sir@cmpwn.com
 ||
 |||[disclaimer: I work on a mailman competitor]
 ||
 |||I'm not terribly fond of mailman v2 either, but also not of v1, and I
 |||don't think that we should hold up Python 2 for its sake. You should
 |||probably convince the upstream to migrate to Python 3 rather than try to
 |||convince downstream to hold onto deprecated software.
 ||
 ||Mailman 3 is the one that uses Python 3. We use it at Ad=C3=A9lie.
 ||
 ||Mailman 2 is deprecated and no longer maintained. Upstream is not going \
 ||to port it; they did that already, giving Mailman 3.
 |
 |In how far is Mailman 2 deprecated?  As far as i know it gets
 |security fixes.

It is also still listed on their web page of current releases.

--steffen
|
|Der Kragenbaer,                The moon bear,
|der holt sich munter           he cheerfully and one by one
|einen nach dem anderen runter  wa.ks himself off
|(By Robert Gernhardt)


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