Feb. 5, 2025
3:30 p.m.
On 2025-02-05 14:46:47 +0000 (+0000), Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: [...]
- Remove NNTP support. (In honor of larsi, I'd rather not.)
- Add nntplib.py from the Python 3.12 nntplib, as a stopgap until option 3 can be implemented. I can't speak for other developers but we might be willing to add it as a contrib module, especially if that might make life easier for distro packagers. It's suboptimal though since that absolutely has to be considered techical debt that will need to be paid someday.
- Port Mailman to pynntp (that may need to be Debian packaged, too), which has seen a revival of activity and two feature releases since 2023. [...]
Debian is also providing the 3.12 nntplib extracted from stdlib for 3.13: https://packages.debian.org/python3-standard-nntplib
In theory they could just add that package as a dependency.
-- Jeremy Stanley