Bug#825821: ITP: neomutt -- NeoMutt is a place to gather all the patches against Mutt.
On 05/30/16 at 05:53pm, Alberto Garcia wrote:
> (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 feature from mutt-kz and superseded mutt-kz more or less.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 agree. If neomutt is packaged, mutt-patched and mutt-kz packages should be
deprecated.
vmjl
>
> I put them in Cc in case they want to say something before neomutt is
> packaged.
>
> Regards,
>
> Berto
>
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