Re: Bug#825821: ITP: neomutt -- NeoMutt is a place to gather all the patches against Mutt.

[Alberto Garcia <berto@igalia.com>]

(I forgot to Cc debian-devel in my previous e-mail)

> > >    NeoMutt is a sophisticated text-based Mail User Agent
> > >    supporting MIME, GPG, PGP and threading.
> > >    .
> > >    NeoMutt was created when Richard Russon (FlatCap) took all
> > >    the old Mutt patches, sorted through them, fixed them up and
> > >    documented them.
> > 
> > Apart from the standard 'mutt' package, there's at least two
> > other packages in Debian with additional patches: 'mutt-kz' and
> > 'mutt-patched'. From the description of this NeoMutt package it
> > looks like it would be a superset of both of them.
> > 
> > Is that the case? If so, would you see neomutt replacing mutt-kz
> > and mutt-patched at some point?
> 
> I would see that neomutt is a good successor for mutt-patched. As
> far as I understood Richard correct, neomutt includes the notmuch
> feature from mutt-kz and superseded mutt-kz more or less. There will
> be a git branch at neomutt where all Debian specific patches will
> be incoperated and therefor both mutt and neomutt packages will be
> much easier to maintain. Bugs introduced from neomutt's additional
> features can be handled directly, because we don't have to maintain
> a patch. We have to maintain a feature.

Ok, thanks. I don't know the opinion of the mutt-kz and mutt-patched
maintainers but if this one can be the successor of both I guess it
can make sense to have them replaced by neomutt at some point.

I put them in Cc in case they want to say something before neomutt is
packaged.

Regards,

Berto