Re: getmail and Fedora 32

HI Charles,

Apologies for my misunderstanding. 

I was only trying to do two things:

(1) To make it known that RH Fedora (and so RHEL and Centos in due
course) seems to be stopping support for Python 2 packages as from
Fedora 32 and no longer has a getmail package available.

(2) That the getmail 6 clone, rewritten for Python 3 installs and runs
successfully under the Fedora 32 distro using an existing getmailrc
file. 

The latter is likely to be useful info for anybody else who is upgrading
from Fedora 31 to Fedora 32 and following the usual Fedora 6 month
version upgrade cycle.

I had no warning of this: the F32 upgrade notes didn't mention anything
upfront about dropping the getmail package.   

Best,
Martin Gregorie



On Sat, 2020-08-22 at 17:31 -0600, Charles Cazabon wrote:
> Martin Gregorie <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Sat, 2020-08-22 at 23:07 +0200, Stefan Krah wrote:
> > > Is this { getmail 6.03 } released with the approval of
> > > Charles?  Otherwise
> > > it seems a bit like a hostile takeover:
> > 
> > The the best of my knowledge, yes. 
> > 
> > In a recent post he wrote that he'd handed over a clean copy of his
> > latest
> > release to the getmail 6 developers and that 6.03 is a conversion to
> > Python
> > 3 with as little functional change as possible. 
> 
> The above isn't totally clear to me - whether "yes" was meant as my
> cooperation, and where "he" refers to me handing over a copy of the
> code...
> 
> To be clear, I have nothing to do with "getmail6"; it's a fork.  As
> long as
> they abide by the terms of the license (GPL v2 only), that fork is
> allowed.
> Whoever's behind it has never contacted me; I only found out about it
> from
> other mentions in my mailing list.
> 
> Charles