-Source: pine-cn
-Section: non-free/mail
+Source: alpine-cn
+Section: mail
Priority: optional
Maintainer: Ivan Rako <Ivan.Rako@CARNet.hr>
Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 4.0.0)
-Standards-Version: 3.6.1
+Standards-Version: 3.7.2
-Package: pine-cn
+Package: alpine-cn
Architecture: all
-Depends: pine (>= 4.64), nano
-Provides: mail-reader
-Description: An e-mail reader with MIME and IMAP support
- Pine is a mail-user-agent that provides features for viewing e-mail.
+Depends: alpine (>= 2.00), alpine-pico (>= 2.00)
+Conflicts: pine, pine-tracker, pine-cn
+Provides: mail-reader, pine-cn
+Replaces: pine-cn
+Description: Text-based email client, friendly for novices but powerful
+ Alpine is an upgrade of the well-known PINE email client. Alpine is currently
+ in alpha. Its name derives from the use of the Apache License and its ties to
+ PINE.
.
- Some form of mail-transport-agent is desirable for obtaining mail. However
- fetchmail is sufficient in some cases to deal with the delivery. There are
- several mail-transport-agents available, including smail, sendmail and others.
+ It features a full suite of support for mail protocols like IMAP and SMTP and
+ security protocols like TLS. It uses curses for its interface.
.
- Pine needs no mail-transport-agent for sending mail, as it provides SMTP for
- this purpose.
- .
- In addition to mail viewing, Pine provides features for viewing and creating
- news group postings.
- .
- This is a metapackage depending on pine and nano packages.
+ This is a metapackage depending on alpine and alpine-pine packages.