severity 1109072 normal thanks On Thu, Jul 10, 2025 at 07:39:37PM +0000, Lloyd wrote: > Package: mlock > Version: 8:2007f~dfsg-7.1 > Severity: serious > Tags: trixie patch > Affects: alpine > > The mlock program is missing in trixie. This is possibly related to the > sudden depreciation of uw-imap.
More than "missing", it was removed deliberately because the only package using it was alpine, and now alpine includes and uses /usr/bin/alpine-mlock instead. > However, mlock is a standalone program with no dependencies on uw-imap > outside the build system. > > mlock is used with the Alpine mail client as an optional dependency to > provide mailbox locking. Not anymore, alpine now uses /usr/bin/alpine-mlock. We did that precisely to be able to drop the mlock package. > Oddly enough, a copy of uw-imap (thus mlock) ship with Alpine source but are > not compiled as part of the package. But mlock is compiled as part of the alpine package, under the name alpine-mlock. Do you miss mlock because you are still using it, or only because you believed alpine still needed it? If it's the second, I think this bug could be closed. If it's the first, I think mlock as a standalone package is very unlikely to come back, because no other package is using it. I'm cc:ing Chris who reported this: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1091778 just in case he wants to add anything which I may have missed. Thanks.
