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

[p.b.burton@att.net]

Thanks for this.

Phil

>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.
>
> A