[debian-devel:13999] Re: ITP: getmail

[Taketoshi Sano <kgh12351@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

佐野＠浜松です。

In <yzrk851ydok.wl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
  on "Wed, 4 Apr 2001 04:40:47 +0900',
   with "[debian-devel:13987] ITP: getmail",
 sugi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx さん wrote:

> fetchmail の様な mail ポーリングツールです。

できれば、「どういう点が fetchmail に比べて優れているのか」と
いうことも ITP の時に説明したほうが良いと思います。
Debian で ITP すると、こういう点でツッコミを受けることはわりと
良くあります。

この後のパッケージ説明の  "Summary of Features" のところに
そうしたことが書かれているのだろうと思いますが、ITP メールの
最初に、特に強調したいところを書いておくと読んだ時に
わかりやすいと思います。

> ===> copyright <===
> This package was debianized by Tatsuki Sugiura <sugi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > on
> Fri, 23 Mar 2001 02:55:52 +0900.
> 
> It was downloaded from http://www.qcc.sk.ca/~charlesc/software/getmail-2.0/
> 
> Upstream Author(s): Charles Cazabon <getmail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
> 
> Copyright: GPL2

Debian Policy Manual version 3.1.1.1, 1999-11-22 (potato 版)

6.6. Copyright information

     Packages distributed under the UCB BSD license, the Artistic license,
     the GNU GPL, and the GNU LGPL should refer to the files
     /usr/share/common-licenses/BSD, /usr/share/common-licenses/Artistic,
     /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL, and /usr/share/common-licenses/LGPL.

Debian Policy Manual version 3.5.2.0, 2001-02-18 (current unstable)

13.6. Copyright information

     Packages distributed under the UCB BSD license, the Artistic license,
     the GNU GPL, and the GNU LGPL should refer to the files
     /usr/share/common-licenses/BSD, /usr/share/common-licenses/Artistic,
     /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL, and /usr/share/common-licenses/LGPL.

です。

copyright ファイルの末尾に

  On Debian GNU/Linux systems, the complete text of the GNU General
  Public License can be found in `/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL'.

とでも書いておきましょう。

>   Summary of Features
>   .
>     * Retrieve mail from an unlimited number of POP3 mailboxes and servers.
>     * Support for multidrop or domain mailboxes.
>     * Safe and reliable delivery to qmail-style Maildirs and mboxrd-format
>       mboxes.
>     * Does not destroy information by rewriting mail headers.
>     * Does not cause mail loops by doing SMTP injection, and therefore does
>       not require that you run an MTA (like qmail or sendmail) on your host.
>     * Can remember which mail it has already retrieved, and can be set to only
>       download new messages.
>     * Written in Python, and therefore easy to extend.
>     * Simple to install, configure, and use.
>     * Won DaveCentral's "Best of Linux" award on 13 January 2000.

Python で書いてあるんですね。

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    <kgh12351@xxxxxxxxxxx> : Taketoshi Sano (佐野　武俊)