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Re: Pine (Was: [Fwd: dependencies rpoblem])



If you're running potato (or probably woody) you can get an unauthorized
Pine binary from http://members.mint.net/frodo/pine/

noah

On Wed, 21 Jun 2000, Andrew Sullivan wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 20, 2000 at 10:09:19PM +0000, p.b.burton@att.net wrote:
> > 
> > 2.1.  One thing I missed right off the bat is the Pine mailer.  It is not
> > available from Debian AFAIK.  
> 
> Yes, it is available _from_ Debian, but only as source.  That's because pine
> does not install (by default) according to Debian policy, and the copyright
> holders on pine do not allow you to distribute altered binaries.  Therefore,
> pine is in non-free (and, just to be clear, it's not part of official
> Debian).  There's also a set of diffs for altering pine to make it
> Debianized.
> 
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