Re: nmh 1.8?

2023-01-02 Thread Michael Richardson
Ralph Corderoy wrote: > Hi Andy, >> > Has anyone had a chance to review my proposed changes to inc to be > >> able to handle long lines from POP sources? > Is the latest in Git? I see the ‘andy-long-line-patch’ at > http://git.savannah.nongnu.org/cgit/nmh.git/refs/ with on

Re: [nmh-commits] [SCM] The nmh Mail Handling System branch, master, updated. 1.8-RC1-9-g68228e3c

2023-01-02 Thread Ken Hornstein
>Agreed, it doesn't. They arrive as valid UTF-8 here which show just >fine so I hadn't noticed a problem, but it's clearly wrong. I expect >it's a bug in the script but have forgotten where is it to be found. I believe it is under the control of savannah. I am not sure it is really worth doing

Re: [nmh-commits] [SCM] The nmh Mail Handling System branch, master, updated. 1.8-RC1-9-g68228e3c

2023-01-02 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Ken, > man/burst.man: re-word to avoid ‘digestifying’, etc. ... > when the email is sent out about the change I get them a little > mangled because the script that notifies about changes doesn't mark > that email as UTF-8. Agreed, it doesn't. They arrive as valid UTF-8 here which sh

Re: [nmh-commits] [SCM] The nmh Mail Handling System branch, master, updated. 1.8-RC1-9-g68228e3c

2023-01-02 Thread Ken Hornstein
Ralph, I've noticed recently that you've been putting UTF-8 characters in commit messages. E.g: man/burst.man: re-word to avoid ‘digestifying’, etc. I'm personally fine with that, but when the email is sent out about the change I get them a little mangled because the script that not

Re: [SCM] The nmh Mail Handling System branch, master, updated. 1.7-branchpoint-887-g54434563

2023-01-02 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi David, > > I can see tag 1.8-branchpoint is the branch point for the > > 1.8-release branch, but why are 69027ab9, 760a6ba9, 5608cda8, which > > alter VERSION and DATE, on master rather than 1.8-release? > > Good question. When I did that I was thinking of where master is at > that point in ti

Re: [SCM] The nmh Mail Handling System branch, master, updated. 1.7-branchpoint-887-g54434563

2023-01-02 Thread David Levine
Ralph wrote: > I've pushed a few more trivial documentation things to master, which > don't have to make 1.8. Those will be in 1.8. > I can see tag 1.8-branchpoint is the branch point for the 1.8-release > branch, but why are 69027ab9, 760a6ba9, 5608cda8, which alter VERSION > and DATE, on maste

Re: nmh 1.8?

2023-01-02 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Andy, > > Has anyone had a chance to review my proposed changes to inc to be > > able to handle long lines from POP sources? Is the latest in Git? I see the ‘andy-long-line-patch’ at http://git.savannah.nongnu.org/cgit/nmh.git/refs/ with one commit: http://git.savannah.nongnu.org/cgit/nmh.git

Re: [SCM] The nmh Mail Handling System branch, master, updated. 1.7-branchpoint-887-g54434563

2023-01-02 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi David, > > Should I stop pushing commits now so as to not get in your way, or > > keep pottering them in as they may make it if there's an 1.8-RC2? > > I'd rather avoid code changes because, in theory, they'd require > complete re-testing. Agreed. > If you find a code change that really shoul

Re: nmh 1.8?

2023-01-02 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Kevin, > Is anyone here packaging nmh as part of a .deb file in the process of > testing? Alexander Zangerl is Debian's packager in the past; I'm CC-ing him. The end of docs/README.developers says Keep an eye on Debian's packaging, especially what patches they have to apply, and the

Re: send(1) and Draft-Folder.

2023-01-02 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi David, > > Ralph wrote: > > > > Draft-Folder: To specify the default draftfolder > > > > > > > > Removing the hyphen from the second draft-folder helps associate > > > > it with the -draftfolder switch, I think. > > > > > > Is this equivalent? > > > > > > Draft-Folder: -draftfolder's de

Re: Plans for distribution updates

2023-01-02 Thread Pascal Stumpf
On Sun, 01 Jan 2023 12:05:58 -0500, Ken Hornstein wrote: > Everyone, > > So now that we've started the release cycle process (thanks, David!) I > am wondering what the plans are for getting 1.8 packages into various > distributions. I did the Homebrew formula for MacOS X and I'm glad > to do it f