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Re: packaging pine



On Mon, 10 Dec 2001, Matt Zimmerman wrote:

>On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 10:38:03AM -0700, John Galt wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 10 Dec 2001, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
>> 
>> >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.  
>
>It isn't a dependency, it's only a Suggests.  It's in contrib because it's
>useless without non-free software.  Note that uw-imapd, which also suggests
>pine, is in main, because it is still useful.

Not Depends:, a dependency.  Can you really not tell the difference 
between small d dependency and large D Depends: ?  First you call 
something in contrib part of Debian, now you can't tell the difference 
between the normal speech usage of dependency and the Debian-specific 
usage of Depends:  Just find a hole to crawl in and pull it in with you.


>

-- 
FINE, I take it back: UNfuck you!

Who is John Galt?  galt@inconnu.isu.edu, that's who!




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