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+Subject: [PATCH 2/2] NEWS: deprecate notmuch deliver\r
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+notmuch-deliver has no commits for about 2.5 years. notmuch-insert has\r
+all the features that deliver does, and as far as I understand the\r
+error handling has now caught up.\r
+---\r
+ NEWS | 7 +++++++\r
+ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)\r
+\r
+diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS\r
+index 0115322..ce7695a 100644\r
+--- a/NEWS\r
++++ b/NEWS\r
+@@ -39,6 +39,13 @@ Stopped `notmuch dump` failing if someone writes to the database\r
+ `post-new`. There's also a new option `notmuch insert --no-hooks` to\r
+ skip the hook. See the notmuch-hooks(1) man page for details.\r
+ \r
++`notmuch deliver` is deprecated\r
++\r
++ With this release we believe that `notmuch insert` has reached\r
++ parity with `notmuch deliver`. We recommend that all users of\r
++ `notmuch deliver` switch to `notmuch insert` as the former is\r
++ currently unmaintained.\r
++\r
+ `notmuch search` now supports `--duplicate=N` option with `--output=messages`\r
+ \r
+ Complementing the `notmuch search --duplicate=N --output=files`\r
+-- \r
+2.1.1\r
+\r