Bug#520263: RFA: mail-notification -- mail notification in system tray
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Package: wnpp
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Hi,
it's been way too long since i've last worked on mail-notification. I
no longer have the energy nor motivation to properly maintain it.
Those who have followed mail-notification thru the years might be
already aware that the upstream author can be uncooperative to various
degrees.
e.g. SSL support is not included as the upstream disagrees with the
FSF interpretation of the OpenSSL (OpenSSL+GPL issue)(see [1]).
Upstream also refuses to use the GNUTLS patches proposed to workaround
this issue and seems to be willing to resort to trademark to prevent
it from being merged w/o a name change(see [2]).
All in all, this is a great application that would benefit from a new
motivated maintainer.
I sincerely hope someone will step up and will do whatever necessary
to bring SSL support back in (even if it implies renaming the package
and merging the GNUTLS patch in).
Of course, i'm willing to answer whatever question you might have and
even assist/comaintain if you will.
Cheers,
- -Pascal
[1] http://bugs.debian.org/286672#17
[2] https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mail-notification/+bug/44335/comments/64
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