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Re: debian-faq: patch5 to remove some outdated content



On Sat, 7 May 2016 03:29:28 +0900
victory wrote:

> On Tue, 3 May 2016 21:00:48 +0200
> Holger Wansing wrote:
> it says:
>  Where is pine?
>  Due to its restrictive license, it's in the non-free area.
> https://packages.qa.debian.org/p/pine.html
> [2010-02-13] pine REMOVED from testing (Britney)
> [2010-02-12] Removed 4.64-4 from unstable (Torsten Werner)

long-desc for nano says:
  nano is an easy-to-use text editor originally designed as a replacement
  for Pico, the ncurses-based editor from the non-free mailer package Pine
  (itself now available under the Apache License as Alpine).

alpine package exists since 2009 :p

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victory
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