(I forgot to Cc debian-devel in my previous e-mail) > > > NeoMutt is a sophisticated text-based Mail User Agent > > > supporting MIME, GPG, PGP and threading. > > > . > > > NeoMutt was created when Richard Russon (FlatCap) took all > > > the old Mutt patches, sorted through them, fixed them up and > > > documented them. > > > > Apart from the standard 'mutt' package, there's at least two > > other packages in Debian with additional patches: 'mutt-kz' and > > 'mutt-patched'. From the description of this NeoMutt package it > > looks like it would be a superset of both of them. > > > > Is that the case? If so, would you see neomutt replacing mutt-kz > > and mutt-patched at some point? > > I would see that neomutt is a good successor for mutt-patched. As > far as I understood Richard correct, neomutt includes the notmuch > feature from mutt-kz and superseded mutt-kz more or less. There will > be a git branch at neomutt where all Debian specific patches will > be incoperated and therefor both mutt and neomutt packages will be > much easier to maintain. Bugs introduced from neomutt's additional > features can be handled directly, because we don't have to maintain > a patch. We have to maintain a feature.
Ok, thanks. I don't know the opinion of the mutt-kz and mutt-patched maintainers but if this one can be the successor of both I guess it can make sense to have them replaced by neomutt at some point. I put them in Cc in case they want to say something before neomutt is packaged. Regards, Berto
