Remco Rijnders wrote: > I'd like to volunteer myself as proxy maintainer for this package. As > this would be the first package in gentoo I'd be working on, I ask for > advice on the following two points:
Note that I'm no developer but have been proxy-maint for some time. > - Can the removal of this package from gentoo be pushed backwards with > a month or so to allow me to work on packaging this new version as well > as do some rudimentary testing to ensure it works properly with Gentoo? I have no idea about this one. > - As upstream for this program would be changed, should the name > getmail in gentoo be kept or would it better to use getmail6, and if > so, what would be the best way to go about this? Since you want to avoid clobbering the existing name outside of Gentoo I think you should strive for the same also within Gentoo. That said, if the two are interchangeable then a virtual/getmail ebuild would probably be reasonable. //Peter
