#22508: Drop email __version__ string. It no longer means anything.

A debian code search (by Tshepang Lekhonkhobe) turned up only one package
checking email.__version__...and it was the 2.7-only mailman package.  Since
Barry approves this change, it seems safe enough to make it...

Doc/whatsnew/3.5.rst

@@ -355,6 +355,14 @@ Deprecated features
 * None yet.
 
 
+Removed
+=======
+
+* The ``__version__`` attribute has been dropped from the email package.  The
+  email code hasn't been shipped separately from the stdlib for a long time,
+  and the ``__version__`` string was not updated in the last few releases.
+
+
 Porting to Python 3.5
 =====================
 

Lib/email/__init__.py

@@ -4,8 +4,6 @@
 
 """A package for parsing, handling, and generating email messages."""
 
-__version__ = '5.1.0'
-
 __all__ = [
     'base64mime',
     'charset',

Misc/NEWS

@@ -159,6 +159,10 @@ Core and Builtins
 Library
 -------
 
+- Issue #22508: The email.__version__ variable has been removed; the email
+  code is no longer shipped separately from the stdlib, and __version__
+  hasn't been updated in several releases.
+
 - Issue #20076: Added non derived UTF-8 aliases to locale aliases table.
 
 - Issue #20079: Added locales supported in glibc 2.18 to locale alias table.