Re: Bug#825821: ITP: neomutt -- NeoMutt is a place to gather all the patches against Mutt.
On Mon, May 30, 2016 at 09:11:57PM +0200, Evgeni Golov wrote:
> Hi,
>
> > > On Mon, 2016-05-30 at 13:00 +0200, Elimar Riesebieter wrote:
> > > > * Package name : neomutt
>
> Please don't. We don't need another mutt fork in Debian.
>
> > > Did you talk to the current mutt maintainers about this?
> > >
> > > The changelog for the mutt 1.6.1-1 upload to experimental includes:
> [ lots of patches taken from neomutt ]
>
> The current plan is to replace Debian's mutt-patched patchset with neomutt. [1]
> Maybe even s/mutt/neomutt/ at some point.
As mutt maintainer I second every word that Evgeni has already said, we are
already working with the neomutt maintainer and there is activity, I don't
believe there we are adding much with another mutt fork/additional package.
Additionally I'm not sure why debian-devel@ was added to this bug.
Cheers
Antonio
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