Re: [PATCH 2/2] man-pages.7: Update non-breaking space advice.

["Alejandro Colomar (man-pages)" <alx.manpages@gmail.com>]

Hi, Branden,

On 8/1/21 1:41 PM, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> At 2021-08-01T12:49:39+0200, Alejandro Colomar (man-pages) wrote:
>> $ apt-file find git-send-email
>> git-doc: /usr/share/doc/git-doc/git-send-email.html
>> git-doc: /usr/share/doc/git-doc/git-send-email.txt
>> git-email: /usr/lib/git-core/git-send-email
>> git-email: /usr/share/man/man1/git-send-email.1.gz
>>
>> You should install git-email if you're on Debian.
> 
> Evidently!  Good grief, why is that split off?  <grumble>
> 
>> apt-cache also helps if you don't know the exact name of the
>> git-send-email file:
> 
> Yup, it was more like I did not even imagine that the package had been
> split up like that.  I thought there must be a licensing problem or
> something.

The same happened to me the first time.

I guess it's the way Debian folks do their packaging, breaking 
semantically :) every package into smaller packages.  As send-email 
isn't needed at all for (basic) git usage, it can go into a separate 
package.

I like it.  It reduces the size of every package, and you have more 
control over what you have installed on your system.

Comparing that to the short time that I used Manjaro (Arch-based), where 
I had to install full-blown GUI programs just to get a C library...

> 
>>> I did a web search and did not find any reports that NeoMutt does
>>> violence to Git-formatted patches.  Perhaps it is GMail's fault?  (I
>>> use its SMPTS server to send mail.)  Does someone on this list have
>>> experience with this MUA and/or provider?  Is there a trick?
>>
>> I also use gmail, so their servers shouldn't cause any errors, I
>> guess.  But I'm no expert on emailing.
> 
> Damn.  I really like GPG-signing my outbound mails, especially including
> patches.  I try to exemplify the audit trails I advocate.
> 
>> [sendemail]
>> 	smtpuser = alx.manpages
>> 	smtpserver = smtp.googlemail.com
>> 	smtpencryption = tls
>> 	smtpserverport = 587
>> 	smtpPass = my_password_goes_here
> 
> Thanks!  Without some NeoMutt help, it looks like this is my route
> forward.

If you get it to work while still signing your emails, I'd be interested 
in knowing how you have set it up.

:)


Cheers,

Alex


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Alejandro Colomar
Linux man-pages comaintainer; https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/
http://www.alejandro-colomar.es/