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 their
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 submitt
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 b
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*".
It
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 pushed
On Sun, Oct 17, 2021 at 11:38 PM Charles Cazabon
wrote:
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> Hi, Sudip,
>
> Thanks for the response.
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> > > 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 "getma
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 someth
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 ge
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