Re: packaging pine
On Mon, 10 Dec 2001, Ben Armstrong wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 12:10:02PM -0400, I wrote:
> > (Pine) sucks for licensing reasons, not technical reasons.
>
> Whoops, I'm sure someone will call me on this one. I should have said
> "not only for technical reasons" ;) i.e. if it were merely the fact
> that pine sucked technically, it would not have been dropped.
But shouldn't there be another message as:
Package pine has no available version, but exists in the database.
This typically means that the package was mentioned in a dependency and
never uploaded, has been obsoleted or is not available with the contents
of sources.list
E: Package pine has no installation candidate
It's nice whe nyou know, but I think a lot of people think it's a
debian-bug ;)
Dunno if this is technicly poss.
michael
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