On Wed, Jan 21, 2026 at 02:04:09AM +0100, Daniel Gröber wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 20, 2026 at 10:02:00AM +0100, Roland Hieber wrote:
> > Package: wnpp
> > Severity: wishlist
> > Owner: Roland Hieber <[email protected]>
> > X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected], Mutt maintainers 
> > <[email protected]>
> > 
> > * Package name    : mutt-ical
> >   Version         : 2.0.2~20240916.g7c795ee1fd74-1
> >   Upstream Contact: Pip! Gold <https://github.com/asciipip/>
> > * URL             : https://github.com/asciipip/mutt-ical/
> > * License         : GPL3+
> >   Programming Lang: Python
> >   Description     : iCalendar event integration for mutt and neomutt
> > 
> > I often work with clients who send me meeting requests via Google or MS 
> > Teams,
> > which only put the relevant time and date into iCalendar MIME attachments
> > Mutt and Neomutt don't have native support for rendering iCalendar events, 
> > so
> > this package contains a small Python script which can be used for that 
> > purpose
> > via a user's ~/.mailcap file.
> > 
> > Some work has already been done to make the package mostly functional, see
> > <https://git.pengutronix.de/cgit/rhi/mutt-ical/tree/>.
> > 
> > This is a small project and upstream development is not very active, 
> > although
> > there are some improvement opportunities, especially replying and accepting 
> > or
> > refusing attendance for iCal events via mutt. I've sent pull requests to
> > upstream in the past, but I expect that the maintainance load in Debian 
> > will be
> > fairly small and manageable. As said, I'm using this project for work, and 
> > I'm
> > willing to maintain the package in Debian as part of the Mutt packaging 
> > team.
> > Currently I will need a sponsor to upload this package.
> 
> Sounds really useful! I'd be happy to sponsor.

Cool, thanks!

> This being a simple(?) pypy package would it not be better to maintain it
> in python team? Is there any reason you can see not to?
> 
>   https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/PythonTeam

No reason other than the fact that it has to do with mutt and it was the first
team that came to mind :) I have no strong opinion on either option.

 - Roland

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