Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: */* More Py2 only items

[Remco Rijnders]

On Tue, Jul 21, 2020 at 02:37:35PM +0000, Peter wrote in 
<20200721143735.5318.qmail@×××××.se>:
>Remco Rijnders wrote:
>> - Can the removal of this package from gentoo be pushed backwards with
>> a month or so to allow me to work on packaging this new version as well
>> as do some rudimentary testing to ensure it works properly with Gentoo?

I'm sorry to see this wasn't possible or missed. A bit later than
expected, I have just submitted a PR to add this package back in, see
https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/pull/17239 . I hope it can go in
shortly, but as this is my first PR to Gentoo, I also hope it is of
sufficient quality. Please be gentle ;-)

>> - As upstream for this program would be changed, should the name
>> getmail in gentoo be kept or would it better to use getmail6, and if
>> so, what would be the best way to go about this?
>
>Since you want to avoid clobbering the existing name outside of Gentoo
>I think you should strive for the same also within Gentoo. That said,
>if the two are interchangeable then a virtual/getmail ebuild would
>probably be reasonable.

I have left it at the original name seeing how the old version has now
been removed from Gentoo and this new version is (read: should be)
drop in compatible. I'll happily change this if the consensus is that
this would be better.

Thanks!

Remco