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Re: which mutt?

From Jim Popovitch <jim@k4vqc.com>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: which mutt?
Date 2019-05-03 17:00 +0200
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On Fri, 2019-05-03 at 08:43 -0300, Francisco M Neto wrote:
+AD4 AFAIK in Stretch Mutt actually means Neomutt. There was a flamewar between the
+AD4 package maintainer and the Mutt guy a while ago about that. It wasn't
+AD4 pretty+AFs-1,2+AF0.
+AD4 
+AD4 
+AD4 In Buster, Mutt means Mutt, and Neomutt means Neomutt.

Is there a formal policy or plan for how issues like this are handled in
the future +ACo-before+ACo flamewars begin?  There was a similar issue with
mailx (bsd-mailx, heirloom-mailx, s-nail) where decisions were made by
one group and offences were taken by others.  It just seems like a clear
policy could prevent a lot of these +ACI-name takeover+ACI issues.

-Jim P.

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which mutt? "Russell L. Harris" <rlharris@oplink.net> - 2019-05-03 06:50 +0200
  Re: which mutt? Nate Bargmann <n0nb@n0nb.us> - 2019-05-03 13:50 +0200
  Re: which mutt? Francisco M Neto <fmneto@fmneto.com.br> - 2019-05-03 13:50 +0200
    Re: which mutt? Jim Popovitch <jim@k4vqc.com> - 2019-05-03 17:00 +0200
      Re: which mutt? Francisco M Neto <fmneto@fmneto.com.br> - 2019-05-03 19:00 +0200
    Re: which mutt? Jimmy Johnson <field.engineer@gmail.com> - 2019-05-03 18:50 +0200
      Re: which mutt? David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2019-05-03 20:00 +0200
        Re: which mutt? Jimmy Johnson <field.engineer@gmail.com> - 2019-05-03 23:30 +0200
          Re: which mutt? Jonathan Dowland <jmtd@debian.org> - 2019-05-04 09:50 +0200
            Re: which mutt? Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2019-05-04 14:00 +0200
      Re: which mutt? "Russell L. Harris" <rlharris@oplink.net> - 2019-05-03 20:50 +0200
        Re: which mutt? Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2019-05-03 21:00 +0200
          Re: which mutt? David Jardine <david@jardine.de> - 2019-05-08 00:20 +0200
        Re: which mutt? Erik Christiansen <dvalin@internode.on.net> - 2019-05-04 05:20 +0200
          Re: which mutt? Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2019-05-04 10:20 +0200
            Re: which mutt? Dejan Jocic <jodejka@gmail.com> - 2019-05-04 15:00 +0200
  Re: which mutt? Jonathan Dowland <jmtd@debian.org> - 2019-05-03 22:00 +0200

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