Re: Has/is anybody testing roundup 2.0.0alpha0?

On Sat, 30 Nov 2019, Ralf Schlatterbeck wrote:

> Also note: We have a monkey-patch for POP3 that works around a bug in
> python2's pop3 implementation that tries to limit header length but
> applies the check to *all* lines in the email in roundup/mailgw.py
> around line 1396. This should be checked if it doesn't break with
> python3.

(This appears to be <https://bugs.python.org/issue23906>.)

> I think that we still have some time before distributions will phase out
> python2, at least debian has just released buster some weeks ago which
> still has python2.

I expect users will run into dependencies dropping Python 2 support, when 
they install such dependencies themselves rather than from distribution 
packages, and we'll have similar issues with CI needing to force older 
versions of dependencies to test with Python 2.

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Joseph S. Myers
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