Hi, On Wed, 1 Nov 2023 23:47:17 +0100 Alexandre Detiste <alexandre.deti...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, > > I had been using sylpheed before & clawsmail > more recently. I do think it's time to drop the ball: > > i.e: > 1) RM src:sylpheed > 2) let src:claws-mail provide a "sylpheed" transitional package, > 3) maybe with a config migration script, but this step is not mandatory > to get 1 & 2 done. For this route I think is mandatory the existing configurations of sylpheed do still work after being replaced by claws-mail. IMO better than leaving users with a migrated configuration that doesn't work is preferable to let the users to configure claws-mail from scratch. Note that claws-mail has migration code for sylpheed configurations since the early days, but with the years passed since they forked this could be easily missing some change. > Conveniently the version number of claws-mail is higher than sylpheed's > one, so no need for extra debhelper wizardy. > > (I did somethink like "3" for residualvm -> scummvm but MR was rejected... > it's better to discuss first) > > Greetings > > > From: Bastian Germann <b...@debian.org> > > Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2023 20:15:53 +0200 > > > > With claws-mail, there is a sylpheed fork available in Debian that has > > the porting to GTK 3 done. sylpheed upstream development seems to have > > stalled. Please consider to have a good migration story for users and > > get rid of sylpheed for trixie. My feeling, from the decades I've been subscribed to upstream ML, is that for most of Sylpheed users migration to Claws Mail is not an option. Of course I could be wrong, and not having it in Debian could also lean the scale for some of those users, but, although the core function is still the same, this is not a trivial change from the users' point of view IMO. To summarize: I think is better to some slightly annoyed users who had to install claws-mail by hand than a bunch of angry users because they got claws-mail installed when they simply requested to upgrade sylpheed. Said that, we're still at the beginning of the cycle and there's still a lot of time before trixie is released, no need to make a rushed decision now. best regards, -- Ricardo Mones http://people.debian.org/~mones «Whistler's Law: You never know who is right, but you always know who is in charge.»
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