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Bug#928353: Fwd: release-notes: document mutt vs neomutt in buster



Antonio Radici wrote:
> This is what I propose to write down in the release notes, feel free to adjust
> as you see fit

Thanks!
> 
> ====
> Starting from Buster, the mutt package will be shipped again from the original
> sources from https://www.mutt.org, this means that some of the features that
> were previously available due to patches applied to the mutt project, which we
> shipped as 'mutt' for the Stretch release, are no longer availables and that
> your configuration might be broken.
>
> If you want to restore the previous behavior you can install the 'neomutt'
> package which will ship the '/usr/bin/neomutt' binary; that is built off the
> sources from https://www.neomutt.org.

This describes things in an odd order.  Could we explain the Stretch
situation first, *then* what's happening in Buster?  And that
explanation needs to include the fact that the source of the patches
applied to the Debian mutt package was neomutt.  Something like:

  <section id="mutt and neomutt">
    <!-- stretch to buster -->
    <title>mutt and neomutt</title>
    <para>
      In stretch, the package <systemitem type="package">mutt</systemitem>
      had patches applied from the sources at <ulink
      url="https://www.neomutt.org";>https://www.neomutt.org</ulink>. Starting
      from buster, the package providing <literal>/usr/bin/mutt</literal> will
      instead be purely based on the original sources from <ulink
      url="https://www.mutt.org";>https://www.mutt.org</ulink>, and a separate
      <systemitem type="package">neomutt</systemitem> package is available
      providing <literal>/usr/bin/neomutt</literal>.
    </para>
    <para>
      This means that some of the features that were previously provided by
      <systemitem type="package">mutt</systemitem> are no longer available. If
      this breaks your configuration you can install <systemitem
      type="package">neomutt</systemitem> instead.
    </para>
  </section>

-- 
JBR	with qualifications in linguistics, experience as a Debian
	sysadmin, and probably no clue about this particular package


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