[oe] Package "pine" has multiple issues

Marcin Juszkiewicz marcin at juszkiewicz.com.pl
Mon Apr 6 13:28:04 UTC 2009


Dnia poniedziałek, 6 kwietnia 2009 o 15:05:59 Jeremy Lainé napisał(a):
> While doing some QA work I came up with the following problems:
>
> * RDEPENDS_pine = "pico" : this looks wrong, should probably be a
> "+=" * pine embeds a copy of libc-client, which is already available
> as a separate package
> * LDFLAGS are ignored, resulting in a QA error

I think that we should drop it totally and use Alpine instead. Why?

- Pine is not developed anymore
- Pine has license which do not allows to distribute changed binaries
- Alpine replaced Pine
- Alpine uses Apache License 2.0

> As I can't find "pine" in the MAINTAINERS file, could someone step
> forward and fix it please?

IIRC Mickeyl added it long time ago.

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