PLEASE read: Preparations and proposed procedure for importing livna packages to RPM Fusion

[Rex Dieter]

Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> On 21.07.2008 15:14, Rex Dieter wrote:
>> Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
>>
>>>  * Are these still needed/wanted?
>>> Fedora|pine|A commonly used, MIME compliant mail and news 
>>> reader.|rdieter at math.unl.edu||
>> Imo, no.  alpine (in fedora) is the way forward.
> 
> Does it obsolete pine? I'd prefer if it did, as users otherwise might 
> assume we or Livna still maintain it.

Here's a snippet from the alpine specfile:
# Using "Conflicts" instead of Obsoletes because while alpine is 
substantially
# compatible with pine the change to Unicode breaks important user
# functionality such as non-ASCII encoded saved passwords. Additionally, 
there
# are also many patches to pine floating around that for political/technical
# reasons will not be integrated into alpine. (I'd like to stay out of it...
# just search "Mark Crispin maildir" for the gory details.) Since licensing
# prevents a Fedora pine package, I cannot predict what patches users might
# have and so want to warn them instead of automatically replacing their 
pine
# install with an alpine that could break their configuration
Obsoletes: pine

I personally would also rather it contain Obsoletes, but this was done 
at behest of alpine's primary maintainer.  Some time has passed, so I'll 
try to convince him otherwise again.

-- Rex