Hello, On Sun 17 Jan 2021 at 12:12AM GMT, Sudip Mukherjee wrote:
> Thanks Moritz. > > On Sat, Jan 16, 2021 at 6:39 PM Moritz Muehlenhoff <j...@debian.org> wrote: >> >> Package: ftp.debian.org >> Severity: normal >> X-Debbugs-Cc: sudipm.mukher...@gmail.com, ilias...@debian.org >> >> Please remove offlineimap. It depends on Python and upstream won't port it >> to Python 3. There's however a fork, which has been packaged as >> src:offlineimap3 >> (and removing this obsolete package allows adding a transitional package >> eventually) > > I was asking in > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=937184#76 if it will > be easier to update offlineimap and mark the binary package as > transitional package instead of removing it and then going via bin-NEW > ? If offlineimap is removed and I add it as transitional package in > offlineimap3 then it will need an epoch in the version. IMO avoiding an epoch is a good reason to keep this source package around for a few more months just to build the transitional package; if this is what you want to do, please close this bug. -- Sean Whitton
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