• Advice needed for a strange request about getmail vs. getmail6

    From Sudip Mukherjee@21:1/5 to All on Mon Oct 18 21:30:03 2021
    Hi All,

    To give a brief history, Debian had "getmail" which was based on
    Python2 and was removed. Then there was a fork available named
    "getmail6" which was based on Python3. A transitional package linked
    them by #979060.

    Now, the upstream of "getmail" has raised a bug in Debian asking
    "getmail6" to be removed or renamed and he claims that users of
    getmail6 are imposing a support burden on him as users are thinking it
    to be getmail and mailing the getmail mailing list. #996569

    I went through the getmail mailing list archive and could find only
    one such mail. I am not sure what to reply to him, and need your
    suggestions about what to do now please.


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    Sudip

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  • From Andrey Rahmatullin@21:1/5 to Sudip Mukherjee on Mon Oct 18 21:50:01 2021
    On Mon, Oct 18, 2021 at 08:27:51PM +0100, Sudip Mukherjee wrote:
    Hi All,

    To give a brief history, Debian had "getmail" which was based on
    Python2 and was removed. Then there was a fork available named
    "getmail6" which was based on Python3. A transitional package linked
    them by #979060.

    Now, the upstream of "getmail" has raised a bug in Debian asking
    "getmail6" to be removed or renamed and he claims that users of
    getmail6 are imposing a support burden on him as users are thinking it
    to be getmail and mailing the getmail mailing list. #996569

    I went through the getmail mailing list archive and could find only
    one such mail. I am not sure what to reply to him, and need your
    suggestions about what to do now please.
    Debian is a wrong place to do this. And if not for the trademark violation claims I'd suggest ignoring this. But the claims should be directed to the upstream first.

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    WBR, wRAR

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