On 9/15/20 3:46 PM, Skip Montanaro wrote:

Is there any chance someone will rewrite Spambayes to use python3? In
Debian, it's hanging on by a thread, as they move from python2 to python3.

I'll take a look, but I know nothing about packaging stuff for Debian. Can you put me in touch with someone who can help in that regard? At a bare minimum, I would want to know exactly what files are in the existing package and if there is a set of patches the Debian folks apply when packaging SpamBayes.

Skip

Researching your question, I was surprised to learn that there is now a package page for the latest "stable" release of the OS. The one name on that page is Hugo Lefeuvre; it contains a link to his email. Under "External Resources" is a link to your Github page, so this would seem to be a good fit for you.

https://packages.debian.org/buster/spambayes

Debian had been far behind, and I was using the directions for python-stdeb ( https://pypi.org/project/stdeb/ ) to build my own packages from the archives that you had created. It looks like Debian has caught up in that regard, but their package for "Buster" still requires python2; i.e. no python3 development. I use the next release, "Bullseye", and python2 packages are being removed at every turn.

Debian packaging wiki: https://wiki.debian.org/HowToPackageForDebian

I hope this is the information for which you were looking. Anything you can do to help would be great.

Thanks,
Dale