[META] Is this ng only for the original Pine from University of Washington...

... or for all its derivatives, including Alpine or whatever it is
called today (it's a moving target)?

Thanks.

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Ottavio Caruso

Allodoxaphobia

2023-10-12 13:33:10 UTC

Post by Ottavio Caruso
... or for all its derivatives, including Alpine or whatever it is
called today (it's a moving target)?

It's for all things *pine.

Jonesy

Adam H. Kerman

2023-10-12 16:30:14 UTC

Post by Ottavio Caruso
... or for all its derivatives, including Alpine or whatever it is
called today (it's a moving target)?

It's not a moving target. It's been "alpine" since 2007, when UWash
rewrote it to eliminate use of portions of the code that were
copyrighted so that it could be released under a public license. Eduardo
had been part of that team. UWash stopped maintaining alpine a few
months after releasing the rewrite.

Most of us are on Eduardo's fork of alpine; the two earlier forks are
abandoned projects. His version numbering doesn't overlap version
numbering used with the two earlier forks.

Eduardo generously gives his time maintaining alpine. We all thank him
for it.

If you had a specific question to ask, you'd receive an answer.

Ottavio Caruso

2023-10-13 08:31:40 UTC

Post by Ottavio Caruso
... or for all its derivatives, including Alpine or whatever it is
called today (it's a moving target)?

It's not a moving target. It's been "alpine" since 2007, when UWash
rewrote it to eliminate use of portions of the code that were
copyrighted so that it could be released under a public license. Eduardo
had been part of that team. UWash stopped maintaining alpine a few
months after releasing the rewrite.
Most of us are on Eduardo's fork of alpine; the two earlier forks are
abandoned projects. His version numbering doesn't overlap version
numbering used with the two earlier forks.
Eduardo generously gives his time maintaining alpine. We all thank him
for it.
If you had a specific question to ask, you'd receive an answer.

I am planning to ask a few questions. But in the meantime:

$ apt-cache show alpine|grep Homepage
Homepage: http://alpine.x10host.com/alpine/

< Site not found >

Is this a Debian problem?

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Ottavio Caruso

Holger Schieferdecker

2023-10-13 11:02:56 UTC

Post by Ottavio Caruso
$ apt-cache show alpine|grep Homepage
Homepage: http://alpine.x10host.com/alpine/
< Site not found >
Is this a Debian problem?

The Homepage has a new address (I don't know when this was changed):

https://alpineapp.email/alpine/

Holger

Adam H. Kerman

2023-10-13 16:03:51 UTC

. . .

$ apt-cache show alpine|grep Homepage
Homepage: http://alpine.x10host.com/alpine/
< Site not found >
Is this a Debian problem?

The package maintainer isn't using the current location of the
repository. Please let the package maintainer know that he needs to
correct this. Eduardo does not create the packages.

Eduardo changed the location of the repository several years ago.

https://repo.or.cz/alpine.git

Ottavio Caruso

2023-10-14 08:37:56 UTC

. . .

$ apt-cache show alpine|grep Homepage
Homepage: http://alpine.x10host.com/alpine/
< Site not found >
Is this a Debian problem?

The package maintainer isn't using the current location of the
repository. Please let the package maintainer know that he needs to
correct this. Eduardo does not create the packages.
Eduardo changed the location of the repository several years ago.
https://repo.or.cz/alpine.git

I've reported it. Thanks.

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Ottavio Caruso

Adam H. Kerman

2023-10-14 15:54:58 UTC

. . .

$ apt-cache show alpine|grep Homepage
Homepage: http://alpine.x10host.com/alpine/
< Site not found >
Is this a Debian problem?

The package maintainer isn't using the current location of the
repository. Please let the package maintainer know that he needs to
correct this. Eduardo does not create the packages.
Eduardo changed the location of the repository several years ago.
https://repo.or.cz/alpine.git

I've reported it. Thanks.

As others pointed out, Eduardo's Patches for Alpine site should also be
referenced. https://alpineapp.email/alpine/

Eduardo had also changed the location of this site.

Ottavio Caruso

2023-10-16 13:58:40 UTC