RFH: mutt

Christoph Berg

February 17, 2009

From: Christoph Berg <myon@debian.org>
To: Debian Bugs Submit <submit@bugs.debian.org>
Subject: Bug#512072: RFH: mutt -- text-based mailreader supporting MIME, GPG, PGP and threading

Package: wnpp

Hi,

the Debian Mutt package needs more maintainers.

There are almost 200 open bugs. Some of these are already forwarded upstream and might just need some triaging/poking. Some need forwarding. Some might be fixed with a trivial patch. Others are Debian specific, mostly for the extra patches we include. There’s duplicates and sub-wishlist items. We are using bts-link to link to dev.mutt.org’s trac, but that also needs more tweaking.

There’s a new upstream version 1.5.19 pending, we need people to check which bugs still apply.

The (in?)famous mutt-patched package needs love to get the sidebar patch updated to the new version, and to get some of mutt-ng’s extra gimmicks and add-ons integrated.

I’ve moved packaging to git since that seems to be the least scary choice nowadays:

http://git.debian.org/?p=pkg-mutt/mutt.git

The repository has been updated to 1.5.19. The mutt-patched build is disabled for now, as the patch doesn’t apply. Testers welcome :)

If you are interested in helping out, please get in contact with me. To get started, subscribe to mutt’s PTS feed. There’s no extra maintainer mailinglist, mailing mutt@packages.debian.org will work for PTS subscribers. If you prefer IRC, join #mutt on irc.freenode.net.

Thanks,
Christoph

Debian