[Re-alpine-devel] integrate patches from pkg topal for gpg?

[Mark H. <he...@sc...>]

Hi.  Any chance you want to integrate the 'topal' patches
for using GPG etc. through alpine?  There is a debian
package 'topal' with these patches, but you have to apply
them by hand and recompile alpine.  Seems like really smart
features to have in the main source.  They don't do any
crypto so there's no export concerns, they just hook into
gpg and ssh if they are available.

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/phil.brooke/topal/rel-72/README.html#pine-patches

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Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2010 13:56:37 -0400 (EDT)
From: Asheesh Laroia <as...@as...>
To: Mark Hedges <he...@sc...>, 58...@bu...
Subject: Re: Bug#586495: alpine: integrate patches from pkg topal - why not?

On Sat, 19 Jun 2010, Mark Hedges wrote:

> Package: alpine
> Version: 2.00+dfsg-6
> Severity: wishlist
>
>
> It seems like the patches from 'topal' would be easy to
> integrate into alpine with 'recommends' for gpg packages.
>
> Admittedly, I haven't tried the patches yet.  I'm lazy.

Hi Mark,

Thanks for the bug report!

It seems you're referring to these patches --
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/phil.brooke/topal/rel-72/README.html#pine-patches

I wonder if you could talk to the realpine-devel list on sourceforge.net and see
if they're willing to integrate them into the real upstream package? That would
be totally rocking -- then they'd be in upstream for everyone to enjoy.

Otherwise I will take a closer look soonish.

-- Asheesh.

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