* Christoph Berg [Fri, 20 Jul 2007 00:22:39 +0200]: > * Michael Prokop [Thu, 19 Jul 2007 23:13:30 +0200]:
> > What's the current state of inclusion of the sidebar patch¹ into the > > debian package of mutt (or maybe even upstream)? > > There are several people out there asking for it. Would be really > > great if that patch could become part of mutt, or at least part of > > Debian's mutt package. > I doubt it will go upstream in the near future, and I think Dato and I > agree that it would be inappropriate to plug it into the Debian > package now. > What we will probably do is to build a second binary (package) that > includes the sidebar patch. (I pondered building a "mutt-ng" binary > for that purpose, but mutt-ng is more than just mutt + sidebar.) I'd like mutt-patched or similar. I'm still not sure whether building it from the same source package is a wise idea, though. What could work is building if from the same source, but in experimental only. Somebody (somebody being me, Christoph, or much preferably some intersted party) would have to take care of merging unstable back to experimental after each upload. Yeah, I think I like that, at least as a start to see how it works out. I can write the infraestructure to build the two packages from the same source, so that the resulting job is a matter of grabbing the package from unstable, comment out a flag in debian/rules or similar, and adjust the conflicts if any, and/or upload the experimental patches with a new version. When there are none, upload, or ping us for an upload if they're not a DD. Any takers? -- Adeodato Simó dato at net.com.org.es Debian Developer adeodato at debian.org A dream is an answer to a question that we don't know how to ask.
