[RFC] alpine - Friendly text-based email client (Bug #401001)
I'm working on packaging the Alpine mail client, an Apache License 2.0
release of the popular PINE mail and news reader. I'm very happy to see
this great (both powerful and friendly) MUA be Free.
Upstream bundles an editor called PICO, originally the PIne COmposer. I
wanted to ask for comments on the way I handled making two binary
packages: basically I do "make install" with CURDIR set to alpine, and I
just "mv" the pico binary and man page out into the CURDIR for
alpine-pico. The "pico" binary and man page are separated because "nano"
also has a pico man page and binary; that way, only alpine-pico conflicts
with nano.
There's only one other significant change: The build system prompts the
user interactively if to enable IPv6 support, so I commented out the
question and enabled it.
Otherwise, this is a straightforward package. I'd love to hear comments
on this "revision 0" package.
The package can be found on mentors.debian.net:
- URL: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/a/alpine
- Source repository: deb-src http://mentors.debian.net/debian unstable main contrib non-free
- dget http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/a/alpine/alpine_0.8-0.dsc
Thanks!
-- Asheesh.
--
Carelessly planned projects take three times longer to complete than expected.
Carefully planned projects take four times longer to complete than expected,
mostly because the planners expect their planning to reduce the time it takes.
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