[bug-mailutils] Mailutils 2.99.97 now(*) available in experimental

[Jordi Mallach]

Hey!

So I finally managed to wrap up the work to adapt Debian packaging to the
massive changes in MU3.

I have uploaded an initial revision of the package targetting the
experimental suite, without libmu_ccp or libmu_nntp, as discussed.

(*) It's not in ftp.d.o right now as it will need to go through NEW
processing for licensing review, but hopefully that'll happen soonish.

It's taken a very long time as I've been working on this for a few hours
every... month or so, so every time I came back to this I wasn't sure were
I got stuck or what I was looking at lately.

Exams procrastination is great for this stuff though, so it is finally
done, with some goodies: the texinfo manual is back in a mailutils-doc
package, and I've added a new mailutils-dbg package with dettached
debugging symbols that should make it a lot easier for people to send
useful backtraces of MU programs when using the debian packages.

I have collected some patches:
http://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/pkg-mailutils/branches/experimental/debian/patches/

some of which would be very nice to get merged before 3.0.

1) disable_am_gnu_radius.patch: (currently disabled): ignore, this should
   not be applied.

2) lber_ldadd.patch: (currently disabled): when using
   LDFLAGS += -Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed, Mailutils fails to build due to a
   missing -llber for libmuauth.

   However, the build will fail soon after as interdependencies between
   libs are missing all over the place (ie, eg. libmu_compat needing
   -lmailutils, etc), making the build fail with missing mu_* symbols.
   We already discussed this months (years?) ago, but the fix was a bit
   involved in the 2.x codebase.

3) mu-remove_conflicting.patch: already applied upstream.

4) sieve2scm_help_output.patch: this trivial patch helps me generate a
   manpage for this program using help2man. Part of the patch was already
   accepted and what's left is really cosmetic. All other MU programs have
   a capitalised "Usage:", and I see no reason for the lack of space
   between the arguments.

5) spelling_fixes.patch: welcome to my annoying spelling fixes patch. :)

Finally, a question: the Debian freeze is right uppon us, and it's time to
decide if wheezy ships Mailutils 2.2 or 2.99.9x. I'm assuming you'll
recommend 2.99.x as 2.2 is already too old and will go unmaintained RSN,
but we need to have in mind that unless you plan a 3.0 release like in the
next week, wheezy would ship a beta version. What's your view on this with
your upstream hat?

Jordi
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