Package: getmail
Version: 5.5-2
Severity: normal
Getmail does not work with python3, and upstream has indicated that
they are not likely to port it.
According to PEP 394 [0], it should use a python2 shebang line, so
that systems can eventually switch /usr/bin/python to be supplied by
python3.
Regards,
--dkg
[0] https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0394
-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
APT prefers testing-debug
APT policy: (500, 'testing-debug'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'oldstable'),
(200, 'unstable-debug'), (200, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental-debug'), (1,
'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 4.14.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8),
LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages getmail depends on:
ii python 2.7.14-4
getmail recommends no packages.
getmail suggests no packages.
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