Re: nano and pine

[Patrick Wiseman <pwiseman@gmail.com>]

On 6/6/05, Roberto C. Sanchez <roberto@familiasanchez.net> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 06, 2005 at 06:28:49PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote:
> > On Monday June 6 2005 6:04 pm, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
> > >
> > > That's what you get for using packages from untrusted sources :-)
> > > Email the UW developers and tell them to read up on diversions.
> >
> > They will *not* react kindly to this overall.  No modified binary
> > distributions are allowed (which is why pine from debian.org is only
> > available through apt-get source -b pine (DON'T do this blindly, it
> > won't work; you probably need to apt-get build-dep -b pine first,
> > preferably while in /usr/src))
> >
> 
> That is why I suggested he email the UW developers (from whom obtained
> the .deb he mentioned) and aske them to do it for future releases.

Um, thanks guys, but none of this helps me get nano installed with pine.

Patrick