On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 10:42:54PM -0400, Ben Boeckel wrote: > I was interested in packaging mutt-notmuch for Fedora and was wondering > a few things:
Hi Ben, thanks for getting in touch about mutt-notmuch. I'm a Debian person myself and I've flirted with the idea of packaging it for Debian. The reason why I have *not* done so yet, is that I think mutt-notmuch should rather belong upstream, as part of notmuch itself, rather than as a separate package. I've discussed that with upstream authors, in the bug report I'm Cc:-ing (note: it is a bug report on the _Debian_ BTS, but upstream is participating to discussions there). You can see the full discussion long at http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=628018 In short: back then upstream seemed to be interested as shipping mutt-notmuch together with notmuch (as a separate interface, in addition to the Emacs and Vim one), but in the end nothing has happened. Yet. I suggest you check with upstream whether the option of integrating mutt-notmuch will be pursued in the near future, before creating a separate package for it. > - Could a COPYING file be added to the tarball. Yet, it could, but I'm reluctant to do so before the above issue is settled (one way or another). > - Are there any official releases? Ditto. Although I've recently [1] moved the code to Gitorious, and I use proper versioned tags there. I can easily add tarballs on top of it. > - The system call out to notmuch is lacking quotes and general shell > safety. This should at least be documented, preferably fixed. I > imagine Perl probably has a shell escaping module (/me is not a Perl > guru). I've just fixed this [2]. Not that it comes with the price of a new dependency on the String::ShellQuote module; nothing terrible, but worth pointing out. Cheers. [1] http://upsilon.cc/~zack/blog/posts/2012/02/mutt-notmuch_0.2/ [2] https://gitorious.org/mutt-notmuch/mutt-notmuch/commit/a5990b8ede81d28d24be65f149ee1b2f30a53521 -- Stefano Zacchiroli zack@{upsilon.cc,pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} . o . Maître de conférences ...... http://upsilon.cc/zack ...... . . o Debian Project Leader ....... @zack on identi.ca ....... o o o « the first rule of tautology club is the first rule of tautology club »
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