Subject: Re: updating pine questions
To: Jeremy C. Reed <reed@reedmedia.net>
From: Todd Vierling <tv@duh.org>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 09/12/2003 07:21:26
On Thu, 11 Sep 2003, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:

: But what about PKGNAME? Is it okay if the mail/pine/Makefile.common has a
: comment that reminds the maintainer to set the PKGNAME?

That should be fine; when Pine is updated, so should Pico.  If Pico's source
code didn't change, its version can remain the same with an updated Pine
distfile.

: (A Makefile.common will also be useful, maybe, when pilot is made into
: its own package someday.)

Ew.  This road is long and ugly -- now that nano exists, I really don't see
the need even for pico to be external.

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-- Todd Vierling <tv@duh.org> <tv@pobox.com>