>>>>> "SM" == Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukher...@gmail.com> writes:
SM> X-Debbugs-Cc: Osamu Aoki <os...@debian.org>

I'm not sure that line will work there. I'll CC him anyway.

SM> This getmail6 will install files like:
SM> /usr/bin/getmail
SM> /usr/bin/getmail_fetch
SM> /usr/bin/getmail_mbox
SM> /usr/bin/getmail_maildir
SM> /usr/bin/getmail-gmail-xoauth-tokens
SM> /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/getmailcore

SM> which are also installed by getmail.

SM> So, I guess the best possible way might be if getmail maintainer updates
SM> to this source, else I can package getmail6 with a "Breaks: getmail".

Ah, good catch!

I'm estimating that the current Debian getmail maintainer would actually
be very happy if you Sudip, could take over the entire Debian getmail
project. Then there indeed would be no need for two independent
packages!

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