Re: How to get balsa into testing?
On Fri, Dec 14, 2001 at 09:26:59PM +0000, Jules Bean wrote:
> Is it, in fact, too late?
>
> Balsa compiles cleanly, has no RC bugs, and IMO is a nice thing to
> have in Debian. Its IMAP support is incomplete, but it makes a nice
> simple lightweight GTK mailer which does MIME properly and ESMTP and
> so on.
>
> It's not going in because it depends on gnome-pim for its addressbook
> (I think), and gnome-pim is buggy. Shall I cut the depends on
> gnome-pim (which is unecessary, it has a perfectly working address
> book of its own)? If I do a new upload to fix that will I totally
> ruin any chance of it getting into testing?
>
> Also it hasn't built on m68k. I've no idea why, there's no recent
> failure log on buildd.debian.org. Is m68k not keeping up at the
> moment? Is there anything I can do to help?
I have recently compiled balsa 1.1.1 (sorry, rpm) so I can confirm it
works pretty well on m68k. I have also tried sylpheed and am almost
tempted to abandon mutt in favor of one of these :) (the killer feature
is of course support for faces)
Bye
Richard
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