Re: packaging pine
On Mon, 10 Dec 2001, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
>On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 05:19:05PM +0100, Michael De Nil wrote:
>
>> But shouldn't there be another message as:
>>
>> Package pine has no available version, but exists in the database.
>> This typically means that the package was mentioned in a dependency and
>> never uploaded, has been obsoleted or is not available with the contents
>> of sources.list
>> E: Package pine has no installation candidate
>>
>> It's nice whe nyou know, but I think a lot of people think it's a
>> debian-bug ;)
>>
>> Dunno if this is technicly poss.
>
>The only way that this will go away is if pgp4pine, uw-imapd and
>uw-imapd-ssl remove their Suggests: pine.
Pgp4pine is in contrib for that very dependency.
>I think it's silly for uw-imapd to suggest pine; an IMAP server system is
>rarely used also as an IMAP client. Anyway, there is an imap-client virtual
>package, so it is just a matter of changing pine | imap-client to
>somethingelse | imap-client.
>
>If anyone cares enough, they can file wishlist bugs against these three
>packages to remove their references to pine.
>
>
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