On Thu, 11 Feb 2010, Santiago Vila wrote:
Package: ftp.debian.org
Alpine is now at version 2.0. AFAIK, the only reason to keep pine in the
archive is that it has Maildir support built-in, while alpine has not.
However, I don't think that is a reason good enough to keep an obsolete,
non-free and unmaintained upstream software in the debian ftp servers.
My proposal is to remove pine from testing and unstable now. People
who still need it may well build it from the source in lenny/non-free,
but somehow we should send the message to any pine user that by the
time squeeze is released, pine will no longer be available in a non-free
deb-src line of sources.list by default.
[ X-Debian-Cc to Asheesh Laroia, maintainer of alpine, just in case he
has something to add ].
I think that's okay.
That Maildir patch... yargh.
-- Asheesh.
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