Sudip Mukherjee wrote:
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> iiuc, getmail6 is not a "hostile fork".
It is; I could explain it, but I already have. Quoting from the getmail
documentation:
Why do I say it's a "hostile" fork? Because I have communicated with the
maintainer and indicated I would be thrilled to accept
On Sun, Nov 7, 2021 at 11:39 PM Charles Cazabon
wrote:
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> Sudip Mukherjee wrote:
> >
>
> So, my preference is:
>
> 1. rename the package and executable. As I have pointed out, this is the
> normal, polite, accepted best practice when forking a project. The fact that
> Roland claims to have
Sudip Mukherjee wrote:
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> 1) The Debian maintainers of getmail have offered to help with
> supporting python3 and have even submitted patches or pointed to their
> wip branches in github which I think were all rejected.
I have not rejected anything. I have asked questions of people who
I have thought about it again while going through all the old mails of
getmail mailing list and also https://bugs.debian.org/936604 and these
are my thoughts:
1) The Debian maintainers of getmail have offered to help with
supporting python3 and have even submitted patches or pointed to their
wip
I'd like to strongly object to the removal of this package from Debian.
As per the Debian social contract: "4. Our priorities are our users and free
software. We will be guided by the needs of our users and the free software
community. *We will place their interests first in our priorities*".
Hi,
On Mon, 18 Oct 2021 12:09:56 +0100 Sudip Mukherjee
wrote:
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> I think I was not able to explain properly. Even if I rename or remove
> the package now, it will only affect Debian unstable and testing
> releases. It will not affect Debian Bullseye release.
Surely such a change can be
On Sun, Oct 17, 2021 at 11:38 PM Charles Cazabon
wrote:
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> Hi, Sudip,
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> Thanks for the response.
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> > > On Fri, 15 Oct 2021 10:55:40 -0600 Charles Cazabon wrote:
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> > > > I would appreciate it if this package/project was renamed to something
> > > > that does not contain the word
Hi, Sudip,
Thanks for the response.
> > On Fri, 15 Oct 2021 10:55:40 -0600 Charles Cazabon wrote:
> > >
> > > 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"
Hi Charles,
On Sat, Oct 16, 2021 at 8:33 PM Charles Cazabon
wrote:
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> 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
On Fri, 15 Oct 2021 10:55:40 -0600 Charles Cazabon wrote:
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> 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.
I
Package: getmail6
Version: 6.14-1
Hi,
I'm the original author of getmail, which was included in the Debian
repositories for a long time (until you dropped most packages depending on
Python 2). getmail6 is a fork of getmail. I'm fine with forking; I chose the
GPLv2 for a reason.
However, the
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