[conspire] installing java as a debian package under 4.0r0

Rick Moen rick at linuxmafia.com
Wed May 9 15:35:39 PDT 2007


I wrote:

> E.g., the pine-src package for the Pine MUA pulled down proprietary Pine
> source tarballs and automatically patched and then compiled a binary
> .deb from that code.  (Later, pine-src was scuttled because of incessant
> security problems.  It was just too much hassle.)

Correction:  Not that it matters much, but the package name actually is
"pine".  It's a Debian _source_ package, and to my surprise is still
present (v. 4.64) in the Non-free collection.

I had the name confused with that of the qmail-src package, likewise in
Non-free.






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