Hi, On Wed, Oct 11, 2017 at 11:53:52AM -0300, David Bremner wrote: > > Hi Osamu; > > Thanks for caring about getmail in Debian. My personal opinion is that > we should use unversioned names like "getmail" if possible, as they are > less confusing for users, and lead to smoother upgrade behaviour. The > exception would be if you think many users may want to stick to > getmail4, which hopefully is not the case.
It's nice to see someone wanted this to be updated ;-) Please wait the current package to hit the testing and I make stable-proposed-upload. Getmail 3 -> 4 was disruptive. So I think the previous maintainer chose to migrate from getmail to getmail4. As I see, it is very mature. The version bump is mostly due to hitting too big a number for the minor version, and upstream is making some continual non-disruptive feature additions only now. So unless I get major opposition, I will upload as getmail. My only concern is these version related package name change still need to wait over a week even if it closes RC bug. See anthy etc: https://ftp-master.debian.org/new.html (This is bugging me. I can't upload new ibus-anthy etc.) getmail4 -> getmail will not even have RC bug to be fixed. So it may take some time to get out of the NEW queue. Regards, Osamu
