Bug#996569: Advice needed for a strange request about getmail vs. getmail6

2021-10-28 Thread Charles Cazabon
On Mon, 18 Oct 2021 22:17:27 +0100 Sudip Mukherjee wrote: > > Thanks, I will forward the bug upstream. If you mean the "getmail6" maintainer, he has explicitly expressed that he has the right to use the name of my project as the name of his fork. He has zero intention of changing the name,

Bug#996569: Advice needed for a strange request about getmail vs. getmail6

2021-10-18 Thread Jeremy Stanley
On 2021-10-18 22:17:27 +0100 (+0100), Sudip Mukherjee wrote: [...] > Why is the name a problem? getmail and getmail6 are different > packages. [...] Because users are quite likely to assume that getmail6 is version 6 of the official getmail project, rather than a fork of getmail. In a community

Bug#996569: Advice needed for a strange request about getmail vs. getmail6

2021-10-18 Thread Sudip Mukherjee
On Mon, Oct 18, 2021 at 9:25 PM Geert Stappers wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 19, 2021 at 12:40:48AM +0500, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 18, 2021 at 08:27:51PM +0100, Sudip Mukherjee wrote: > > > Hi All, > > > > > > To give a brief history, Debian had "getmail" which was based on > > >

Bug#996569: Advice needed for a strange request about getmail vs. getmail6

2021-10-18 Thread Geert Stappers
On Tue, Oct 19, 2021 at 12:40:48AM +0500, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: > On Mon, Oct 18, 2021 at 08:27:51PM +0100, Sudip Mukherjee wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > To give a brief history, Debian had "getmail" which was based on > > Python2 and was removed. Then there was a fork available named > >