Re: Pine

[Bob Nielsen <nielsen@oz.net>]

Check the source file.  There are pine (ver 3.96) and pine4 (ver 4.21)
sources in addition to pine4-src and pine4-diffs.

The pine4-src and pine4-diffs packages were created (iirc) before apt
had the ability to download source and automatically create a package
this way.  From the description of pine4-diffs:

  This package contains the Debian diffs for pine in .deb format, to make
  easier its downloading through already existing methods, as in the
  kernel-source package. In the future, retrieving source packages could
  be as easy as retrieving binary .deb packages with dselect or apt, but
  currently there is no such tool in the current distribution and this
  package is a "real need" for many people.

'apt-get -b source pine4' elegantly provides this capability so there
is probably no continued need to have the kludge 2-package method.

On Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 11:48:26AM +0200, Robert Varga wrote:
> 
> 
> On Fri, 13 Oct 2000, Christian Pernegger wrote:
> 
> > 
> > What's wrong with
> > 
> > $ apt-get -b source pine
> > 
> 
> Would it not want to get pine4-....tar.gz, pine4-4.21-x....diff.gz and
> pine4-4.21-?.dsc ergo the source files themselves from the source archive?
> It is not that way with pine. The sources are put in two binary packages.
> They must be installed and then you can extract and build them, but the
> source and diff files themselves are not retrievable from the source
> tree, I guess.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Robert Varga
> 
> 
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