Re: Mutt's endless patches
On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 07:57:17PM -0700, Kyle Hubert wrote:
> I'm currently very pleased with Debian mutt. Unfortunately, Debian is
> reliant on many patches, most of them are listed in the PatchList in
> the mutt wiki. The Debian team is reluctant to add too many more
> patches to mutt, especially intrusive ones. I don't blame them, the
> upkeep can be mountainous.
>
> My point is, what's the requirement to get some of the patches into
> the main line of mutt? I'm particularly interested in the threading
> and sidebar patches. I maintain my own deb for mutt installation on my
> servers (to get the sidebar feature).
If you check the recent archives (and changelog in hg), you'll see that
a number of patches (I believe including one or both of the ones you
mention) are being incorporated into what will become mutt 1.6.
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