bug#48213: offlineimap build fails

[Mark H Weaver]

Hi Simon,

zimoun <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com> writes:
> The package offlineimap will go sooner or later since Python 2 is EOL.
> The migration from Py2 to Py3 is not clear [1] and the README [2] says:
>
>   > As one of the maintainer of OfflineIMAP, I'd like to put my efforts into
>   > [imapfw](http://github.com/OfflineIMAP/imapfw). **imapfw** is software in
>   > development that I intend to replace OfflineIMAP with in the long term.
>   >
>   > That's why I'm not going to continue OfflineIMAP development. I'll 
> continue
>   > to maintain OfflineIMAP (fixing small bugs, reviewing patches and merging,
>   > and rolling out new releases), but that's all.
[...]
> 1: <https://github.com/OfflineIMAP/offlineimap/issues/670>
> 2: 
> <https://raw.githubusercontent.com/OfflineIMAP/offlineimap/master/README.md>

Thanks for bringing this to our attention.

Incidentally, I used 'offlineimap' for several years, and one day it
stopped working for me with an inscrutible error ("invalid literal for
int() with base 10: ''") , and I was never able to get it working again.

I eventually switched to 'mbsync' from the 'isync' package, and it has
been working very well for my purposes.

      Thanks,
        Mark

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