[Alpine-info] Re-alpine 2.02 released

[Dag Wieers]

On Tue, 5 Oct 2010, Andraž 'ruskie' Levstik wrote:


> :2010-10-05T17:04:Dag Wieers:

>

>> I am wondering what you want distribution packagers to do. Should we replace

>> alpine (like we did with pine when alpine was out), or do you expect people to

>> install both alpine and realpine next to each other.

>> (Same for pine/alpine binary symlinks for usability)

>

> The binary names are the same so there is no change.


Personally I would prefer (for the time being) to update the alpine
package and provide a virtual provides 'realpine', until things become 
more clear.



>> Also, I prefer using 'realpine' as the package name, instead of re-alpine.

>> What do other packagers think/do ? A guide for packagers would be useful for

>> consistency cross-distribution.

>

> If you wish to feel free. I've put in a rename request to sf a year ago

> to rename the project to realpine but still nothing happened.


Ok.



>> I am not using those.

> Ok I'll remove that then as well. Thanks.

>

> Regards and thanks for the input


I was not representing all distribution packagers though ;-)


Another question, we include various functionality from Eduardo Chappa. 
Are those expected to support realpine as well (now and in the future) ?

As without those, we'd be reducing functionality extensively :-/

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