Hi Charles, On Sat, Oct 16, 2021 at 8:33 PM Charles Cazabon <charlesc-getm...@pyropus.ca> wrote: > > On Fri, 15 Oct 2021 10:55:40 -0600 Charles Cazabon wrote: > > > > So: fork is fine. Imposing a large support burden on the original project > > is > > not. I would appreciate it if this package/project was renamed to something > > that does not contain the word "getmail" or anything confusingly similar.
"getmail" and "getmail6" are separate source packages and they were kept separate with the hope that you will release the python3 version one day and then getmail can be reintroduced. getmail -> https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/getmail getmail6 -> https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/getmail6 > > I have a specific suggestion for Debian to address this issue. > > 1. The upstream author, or if he refuses, the Debian package maintainer, can > pick a new package name that does not pollute my getmail package, > community, mailing list, and trademark, and which will stop imposing this > unwelcome support burden on me and the getmail mailing list/community. > I don't know what name you'll pick; for the rest of this proposal, let's > use "go-grab-my-email" as an example. I am really sorry that users are asking you for support instead of opening bugs with Debian, which was giving us the impression that getmail6 is working fine. But again, the README and the manpage clearly says that bugs should be reported to https://github.com/getmail6/getmail6. > > 2. Package it for Debian. Have it use the `Obsoletes: getmail` metadata so > that users upgrading a Debian system have getmail correctly removed and > the go-grab-my-email package installed, similar to what happens with the > "getmail6" package now. It initially had "Conflicts: getmail" to make sure getmail is uninstalled before any user tries to install getmail6 but then one user of getmail asked for them to be linked. You can see the details at https://bugs.debian.org/979060 > > 3. Additionally, make the new package display an informational screen via > apt-listchanges when getmail is removed and go-grab-my-email is installed. > It should say something like: I am not sure how this is going to help. Any change I do now will be affecting the next Debian release in 2023. When users of getmail upgrades to Debian Bullseye they will always get getmail6 because of the transitional package. I will remove the transitional package before Debian Bookworm is released so that getmail and getmail6 will not be linked anymore. -- Regards Sudip
