Bug#2366: Pine fails to use /etc/news/server (from Bug#933)

[Dale Scheetz <dwarf@polaris.net>]

On Tue, 20 Feb 1996, Ian Jackson wrote:

> Package: pine
> Version: 3.91-4
>
> When configuring its setup for newsreading (and/or posting) Pine
> should read /etc/news/server to try to find an NNTP server to use, and
> copy it into the pine.conf.  Only if /etc/news/server doesn't exist
> Pine should prompt the user, and having established a sensible value
> it should store it in both /etc/news/server and pine.conf.
>
> That it doesn't do this is a contravention of the packaging
> guidelines (which say that it ought to use shared configuration files
> like /etc/news/server where appropriate).
>
> I'm reporting this bug separately so that it can be discussed without
> confusion.
>
Exactly! Look for this in the next release,

Dwarf

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