Masked mail-client/muttng pending removal, unless someone steps up/takes over. Removal after 30 days.
On 26-05-2007 10:52:07 +0200, Fabian Groffen wrote: > Hi all, > > mail-client/muttng currently sits in the tree as some sort of orphan. > It used to be a fork of Mutt, having many patches applied, features > added and code cleaned up. However, at a certain point the project > died, one of the main developers went back to Mutt and applied his > patches there. Currently most of these patches are applied in Mutt's > sources, or patches have been made to work with Mutt. Some have even > improved a lot (e.g. SMTP support is native in Mutt, while it uses > libesmtp in muttng). > > Current state of muttng is a bit vague. It tries to be a collection of > patches against the latest development version of Mutt. However, since > the latest svn release of muttng, I have never updated the package, as I > don't really know what can or should be released from it. The result is > IMO bitrot, and bugs/security holes are not fixed. Additionally, Mutt > seems to have superceeded muttng by now. > > For this reason I would like to drop muttng from the tree (in a normal > procedure, of course). I know at least one Gentoo (Security) dev seems > to use muttng instead of mutt currently. If someone knows how life for > muttng should continue, feel free to take over the package. If you are > using muttng now, consider moving to the latest Mutt. > > Please speak up now if there are major reasons to keep muttng in the > tree, despite being unmaintained and out of date. -- Fabian Groffen Gentoo on a different level -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
