[MacPorts] #52267: mutt @1.6.0 make it 'vanilla' and upgrade to 1.7

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#52267: mutt @1.6.0 make it 'vanilla' and upgrade to 1.7
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 Reporter:  leonardo.schenkel@…  |      Owner:  macports-tickets@…
     Type:  update               |     Status:  new
 Priority:  Normal               |  Milestone:
Component:  ports                |    Version:  2.3.4
 Keywords:                       |       Port:  mutt
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 It's hard to maintain the mutt port today because it contains on a lot of
 external patches that need to be refreshed for every new version and some
 of these patches conflict with each other, so they can't be used together.

 It is much easier to rely on the work of the [https://www.neomutt.org
 NeoMutt] project since it maintains a number of the most popular patches
 cleanly applied over the latest release of Mutt. A port for it was
 submitted on #52264. It was then suggested on that ticket that Mutt could
 be changed to a 'vanilla' port which is plain upstream with no patches. I
 have attached a patch that does so, upgrades Mutt to the latest release
 version, 1.7.0 and enables the +ssl variant by default.

 From what I could determine all previous patches on this port are either
 incorporated into NeoMutt or upstream Mutt, with the exception of
 https://dev.mutt.org/trac/ticket/3285. Since this patch is 7 years old and
 it was not adopted by either Mutt or NeoMutt, I assume that there isn't
 much demand for that change.

 In case the idea of a 'vanilla' Mutt is accepted, I volunteer to be the
 maintainer with this port alongside the neomutt port — but with the
 understanding that to keep both ports easy to maintain I will try to
 maintain them free of local patches and steer any patch submissions to the
 NeoMutt project instead, which can keep them up to date.

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Ticket URL: <https://trac.macports.org/ticket/52267>
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