Re: getmail and Fedora 32

Il 23 agosto 2020 alle 15:59 Stefan Krah ha scritto:
> On Sun, Aug 23, 2020 at 06:26:21AM -0400, Remco Rijnders wrote:
> > I learned about this fork on this
> > mailing list first, and Charles has been invited to join the project,
> > so it can hardly come as a surprise that people are working on
> > this. Our fork/port is not a hostile one and I am sorry if anyone
> > perceives it as such.
> 
> If a project has been distributed for decades under http://pyropus.ca/
> and a fork goes straight for the jackpot URL, I think one is entitled
> to speculate about the motivations.
> 
> Perhaps the motivations are good, but I don't like forks of projects
> that are clearly maintained.  And I certainly don't approve of copying
> the documentation verbatim, even if the license allows for that.

Stefan, I am not going to speculate but this is too harsh.

getmail relies on a piece of software (python2) which reached EOL on
January 1st 2020.
Quite understandably distribution maintainers are not keen in introducing a
dependency which will not see any kind of patch (not even source-only
security patches) in the future.
Hence getmail is getting the boot from major software repositories.

The problem is cogent and today — as Martin Gregorie documented — is
cogent and time-sensitive: breakage is happening *now*.
This makes me assume good faith; I hope the two repositories and
maintainers will merge in the future.