On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 02:19:24AM +0200, Christoph Berg wrote: > we are having some trouble with the sidebar patch in the Debian > package, notably it seems to break detecting new mail in maildir > folders. I don't use the patch myself, so I can't say much about the > impact, but Stefano usually right in what he's saying.
I'll add some more info discovered in the last weeks. The background is that I've changed laptop, and moved my /home (where my maildirs live) from one host to the other. Apparently, the inability to detect new mail is sticky to some maildirs, and moving from one host to the other increased the number of maildirs in which mutt-patched is _able_ to detect new mails. However, also in those in which new mails are being detected, they are always been detected as (1) to state that only 1 new mail is present in the maildir, while after opening the actual maildir the proper number of new mails (usually higher) is shown. In some other maildirs however the full initial problem persists: no mention at all of the number of new mails until the maildir is opened. > Stefano, while this is certainly a "bad" bug, I'm downgrading it to > important again as it does not have any impact on the main mutt > package, and does not break any other feature from the mutt-patched > package (there are none) (, and doesn't make the package completely > useless... somehow). I respect your decision and won't re-raise severity again unless RMs steps in this bug. However, I can't help noticing that at least your first argument looks bogus to me: it is true that this bug does not affect the main mutt package, and that's why the bug report severity I raised is related to mutt-patched. The fact that transitions to testing / releases happen on a source package base is a different story ... > I'll be on vacation for the next two weeks, if there's a fix, please > feel free to upload a new mutt version. I've added you to the pkg-mutt > project on alioth, so you should even be able to commit to the bzr > repository there. Thanks, even though I won't be able to debug this by myself (time constraints and too few knowledge---i.e. 0---of the mutt code base), I'll be happy to test any patch which will show up, and to upload the fixed package. Thanks for taking care of this, Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Paris 7 [EMAIL PROTECTED],pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} -<>- http://upsilon.cc/zack/ I'm still an SGML person,this newfangled /\ All one has to do is hit the XML stuff is so ... simplistic -- Manoj \/ right keys at the right time -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
