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Re: junk/pine releases



'Dale Scheetz wrote:'
>
>2. This release of pine has included the imapd supplied with pine source. 
>I have had great conceptual problems with this addition. I feel compelled 
>to inform the installer that they are getting this program, and ask 
>permission to modify configuration files to configure it. I would prefer 
>to be able to install it or not, at the installers preference, but dpkg 
>doesn't seem to support this (yes/no?). Aside from asking some possibly 
>confusing questions I see no answer to this other than splitting the 
>imapd out into a separate binary package. Then I can safely assume that 
>the installer has chosen to get this new daemon installed and properly 
>perform the configuration in inetd. Any ideas on this issue would be 
>greatly appreciated.

I think imapd belongs in netstd.  Maybe Peter would be willing to take
it?

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