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From: covici@××××××××××.com
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] fate of nmh
Date: Sun, 11 Jul 2010 18:43:21
Message-Id: 30927.1278873774@ccs.covici.com
1 In check ing for updates today, I found the following:
2
3 - mail-client/nmh-1.3-r1 (masked by: package.mask)
4 /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask:
5 # Diego E. Pettenò <flameeyes@g.o> (24 Jun 2010)
6 # on behalf of QA team
7 #
8 # Fails to build with Berkeley DB 5.0 (#319937); current
9 # stable fails to build with current stable glibc (bug
10 # #320645), last activity in both ebuild and upstream in 2008
11 # (and even then it wasn't from maintainers); uses $EDITOR
12 # and $PAGER at build-time (bug #294762, and slightly related
13 # bug #262150. One configure test becomes interactive if
14 # app-editors/elvis is installed (bug #323541). Multiple
15 # collisions.
16 #
17 # Feel free to pick this up and maintain it properly, but
18 # unless a new maintainer can be found, this package is
19 # slated for removal.
20 #
21 # Removal on 2010-08-23
22
23 This is what I use for my mail reader -- with the emacs interface -- so
24 I am wondering what I can do once this happens -- I imagine I can keep
25 it installed, but it would not be a good situation.
26
27 thanks in advance for any ideas.
28
29 --
30 Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is:
31 How do
32 you spend it?
33
34 John Covici
35 covici@××××××××××.com

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[gentoo-user] Re: fate of nmh walt <w41ter@×××××.com>
Re: [gentoo-user] fate of nmh Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>