From 7c7131a835743a570598bcfe53b63271da676f70 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: David Bremner Date: Fri, 1 Jan 2016 18:11:34 +2000 Subject: [PATCH] Re: [PATCH 3/5] nmbug-status: Add an nmbug-status(5) man page --- 44/96a103bf3e94f385817a1cc96246f7a6cb4ced | 84 +++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 84 insertions(+) create mode 100644 44/96a103bf3e94f385817a1cc96246f7a6cb4ced diff --git a/44/96a103bf3e94f385817a1cc96246f7a6cb4ced b/44/96a103bf3e94f385817a1cc96246f7a6cb4ced new file mode 100644 index 000000000..dec158c94 --- /dev/null +++ b/44/96a103bf3e94f385817a1cc96246f7a6cb4ced @@ -0,0 +1,84 @@ +Return-Path: +X-Original-To: notmuch@notmuchmail.org +Delivered-To: notmuch@notmuchmail.org +Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) + by arlo.cworth.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 59F9E6DE1A01 + for ; Thu, 31 Dec 2015 14:11:43 -0800 (PST) +X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at cworth.org +X-Spam-Flag: NO +X-Spam-Score: -0.311 +X-Spam-Level: +X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.311 tagged_above=-999 required=5 tests=[AWL=0.240, + RP_MATCHES_RCVD=-0.55, SPF_PASS=-0.001] autolearn=disabled +Received: from arlo.cworth.org ([127.0.0.1]) + by localhost (arlo.cworth.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) + with ESMTP id UDpb-fm4Rg9K for ; + Thu, 31 Dec 2015 14:11:41 -0800 (PST) +Received: from fethera.tethera.net (fethera.tethera.net [198.245.60.197]) + by arlo.cworth.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 72B466DE192C + for ; Thu, 31 Dec 2015 14:11:41 -0800 (PST) +Received: from remotemail by fethera.tethera.net with local (Exim 4.84) + (envelope-from ) + id 1aElRR-0004jx-20; Thu, 31 Dec 2015 17:11:29 -0500 +Received: (nullmailer pid 4410 invoked by uid 1000); + Thu, 31 Dec 2015 22:11:34 -0000 +From: David Bremner +To: "W. Trevor King" +Cc: Jani Nikula , notmuch@notmuchmail.org +Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/5] nmbug-status: Add an nmbug-status(5) man page +In-Reply-To: <20151231202815.GL3680@odin.tremily.us> +References: + <0a1bd306cb2e306ff49d72b6d2466c1d4a0ade2b.1451502495.git.wking@tremily.us> + <87ege26fi4.fsf@nikula.org> <87fuyi4iwm.fsf@zancas.localnet> + <20151231202815.GL3680@odin.tremily.us> +User-Agent: Notmuch/0.21+26~g9404723 (http://notmuchmail.org) Emacs/24.5.1 + (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) +Date: Thu, 31 Dec 2015 18:11:34 -0400 +Message-ID: <87d1tm46ax.fsf@zancas.localnet> +MIME-Version: 1.0 +Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 +Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable +X-BeenThere: notmuch@notmuchmail.org +X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 +Precedence: list +List-Id: "Use and development of the notmuch mail system." + +List-Unsubscribe: , + +List-Archive: +List-Post: +List-Help: +List-Subscribe: , + +X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 31 Dec 2015 22:11:43 -0000 + +"W. Trevor King" writes: + +> On Thu, Dec 31, 2015 at 01:39:21PM -0400, David Bremner wrote: +> +>> For me it's a bit odd to have a man page for a tool we don't install +>> by default. Is it maybe time to "promote" nmbug-status to the +>> notmuch- namespace and install it by default? +> +> Sounds good to me. And Gentoo has installed it (if you've set the +> =E2=80=98nmbug=E2=80=99 USE flag [1]) since 0.11.1-r1, 2012-02-21 [2]. I= +'m not sure +> what the new names should be. nmbug =E2=86=92 notmuch-dtag (for distribu= +ted +> tag) and nmbug-status =E2=86=92 notmuch-report? +> + +I'm not sure we need to deal with both tools in lockstep. It's not like +there's an actual dependence of nmbug-status on nmbug.=20 + +>> That would have to be somehow tied to installing the python +>> bindings; +> +> On Gentoo, that happens via REQUIRED_USE [3,4]. An alternative for +> packaging systems without USE-flag-style flexibility would be to spin +> them off into a separate project that depends on Git and notmuch's +> Python bindings. +> + +Yes, these things are easy to solve in most packaging systems, but we +want notmuch to be installable from source as well.=20 -- 2.26.2