Re: Advice needed for a strange request about getmail vs. getmail6

2021-10-18 Thread Jeremy Stanley
On 2021-10-18 22:17:27 +0100 (+0100), Sudip Mukherjee wrote: [...] > Why is the name a problem? getmail and getmail6 are different > packages. [...] Because users are quite likely to assume that getmail6 is version 6 of the official getmail project, rather than a fork of getmail. In a community I

Re: Advice needed for a strange request about getmail vs. getmail6

2021-10-18 Thread Sudip Mukherjee
On Mon, Oct 18, 2021 at 9:25 PM Geert Stappers wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 19, 2021 at 12:40:48AM +0500, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 18, 2021 at 08:27:51PM +0100, Sudip Mukherjee wrote: > > > Hi All, > > > > > > To give a brief history, Debian had "getmail" which was based on > > > Python

Re: Advice needed for a strange request about getmail vs. getmail6

2021-10-18 Thread Geert Stappers
On Tue, Oct 19, 2021 at 12:40:48AM +0500, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: > On Mon, Oct 18, 2021 at 08:27:51PM +0100, Sudip Mukherjee wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > To give a brief history, Debian had "getmail" which was based on > > Python2 and was removed. Then there was a fork available named > > "getmai

Re: Advice needed for a strange request about getmail vs. getmail6

2021-10-18 Thread Andrey Rahmatullin
On Mon, Oct 18, 2021 at 08:27:51PM +0100, Sudip Mukherjee wrote: > Hi All, > > To give a brief history, Debian had "getmail" which was based on > Python2 and was removed. Then there was a fork available named > "getmail6" which was based on Python3. A transitional package linked > them by #979060.