Re: getmail slow with gmail POP3

Il 01 novembre 2022 alle 11:40 dmacdoug ha scritto:
> It would be nice, but, as Francisco said,  "silly debian maintainers and 
> their policies".  I think it is one of their silly policies to default to 
> packages that depend on python3 and deprecate anything that still depends 
> on python2 even though python2 is still installed and available.  So if 
> you know to do it you can easily uncheck getmail6 and install real getmail
> instead, but most people aren't that tuned in to such things.  I don't know
> what to do about it.

There is unfortunately no way to install getmail5 — no, I should call it
`getmail` full stop, the fork should change name  — from `main`
repositories in Debian Bullseye.

Of course you can install it locally, but then what’s the point of
a software distribution?


I had a similar problem with `neomutt` being shipped as `mutt` by Debian:
- I filed for a name change and failed
    https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=866680
- upstread had to intervene himself for debian maintainers to become
  responsive
    https://mutt-users.mutt.narkive.com/ZIhyEl1W/mutt-neomutt-and-debian-stretch#post7

So my suggestion for Charles & friends is to persevere and if needed
escalate to Debian people and even Github.

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