Re: packaging pine
On Mon, 10 Dec 2001, Santiago Vila wrote:
> Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> > The only way that this will go away is if pgp4pine, uw-imapd and
> > uw-imapd-ssl remove their Suggests: pine.
> >
> > 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.
>
> IMHO, the fact that we can't distribute pine.deb should not make a
> "Suggests: pine" invalid.
Why not make pine-tracker "Provides: pine", which it effectively does?
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