Re: Bug#145249: pine396-src: Can't find in woody/stable

[Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr>]

On Tue, Apr 30, 2002 at 03:07:09PM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote:
> reassign 145249 www.debian.org
> retitle 145249 outdated info about pine, or maybe the FAQ needs an update
> severity 145249 normal
> thanks
> 
> > Package: pine396-src
> > Severity: grave
> >
> > I hate to do it this way, but the pine396-src package that is required
> > for the pine application (according to the website) is unavailable from
> > the following sources:
> >
> > deb ftp://ftp.eecs.umich.edu/debian testing main contrib non-free
> > deb-src ftp://ftp.eecs.umich.edu/debian testing main contrib non-free

BTW you can remove these two lines from your sources.list file, this mirror
has stopped updating and is going to be discontinued sometime soon.

> > deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ testing main non-free contrib
> > deb-src http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ testing main non-free contrib
> > deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US testing/non-US main contrib non-free
> > deb-src http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US testing/non-US main contrib non-free
> >
> > It just doesn't show up anywhere.
> 
> pine is no longer distributed inside a .deb package which contains the
> source.
> 
> Instead, the source is distributed as every other source package, usually
> in three files: the .orig.tar.gz, the .diff.gz and the .dsc.
> 
> There is a new .deb package, pine-tracker, which gives you detailed
> instructions about how to build it.
> 
> I'm reassigning this bug to the www.debian.org package as a reminder that
> whatever incorrect info about pine should be fixed (perhaps it comes
> from the doc-debian package, please reassign it as appropriate).

The current FAQ contains:

4.10 Where is pine?

   Due to its restrictive license, it's in the non-free area. Moreover, since
   license does not even allow modified binaries to be distributed, you have
   to compile it yourself from the source and the Debian patches.

   The source package name is pine. You can use the pine-tracker package to
   be notified about when you need to upgrade.

   Note that there are many replacements for both pine and pico, such as mutt
   and nano, that are located in the main section.

So, I guess this bug can be closed since the documentation is up to date.

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