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Remco Rijnders wrote: |
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> I'd like to volunteer myself as proxy maintainer for this package. As |
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> this would be the first package in gentoo I'd be working on, I ask for |
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> advice on the following two points: |
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Note that I'm no developer but have been proxy-maint for some time. |
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> - Can the removal of this package from gentoo be pushed backwards with |
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> a month or so to allow me to work on packaging this new version as well |
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> as do some rudimentary testing to ensure it works properly with Gentoo? |
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I have no idea about this one. |
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> - As upstream for this program would be changed, should the name |
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> getmail in gentoo be kept or would it better to use getmail6, and if |
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> so, what would be the best way to go about this? |
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Since you want to avoid clobbering the existing name outside of Gentoo |
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I think you should strive for the same also within Gentoo. That said, |
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if the two are interchangeable then a virtual/getmail ebuild would |
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probably be reasonable. |
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//Peter |
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