On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 1:00 AM, Kristof Csillag <csillag.kris...@gmail.com> wrote: > Package: geary > Severity: wishlist > > The package hasn't been updated for almost a year now, > because upstream development has ceased. > > Quoting to the wikipedia page for geary, > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geary_(software) > >> As Yorba Foundation stopped its activities and the future >> of this application was unclear, elementary OS still using >> this email client by default, has decided to fork the project >> on November 18, 2015, renaming the project to Pantheon Mail >> during the process. > > Maybe Debian could also ship the fork, which is under active > development?
There seems to be activity on the mailing list, as well as potentially new maintainers stepping up to take care of geary [1]. In light of this, I don't think it's appropriate to ship the eOS fork as geary; rather, I think Pantheon Mail should be packaged separately. Regards, Vincent [1] https://mail.gnome.org/archives/geary-list/2016-March/msg00002.html
