[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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