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:
> >
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> 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*".
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