On Wed, 9 Apr 2008, Christian Perrier wrote:

> This bug has still not seen any activity since ages.
> 
> Santiago, you mentioned two options:
> 
> a) It is likely that pine will eventually be replaced by alpine
> (once alpine is mature enough).
> 
> b) There should be a mta-base package on which packages like this
> may depend, so that we do not duplicate the same debconf questions
> about /etc/mailname and /etc/news/server over and over again
> in every package managing those files.
> 
> 
> b) didn't happen
> 
> So, should a) be the option?

Yes. See Bug#405762. Asheesh seems to be on the way of applying a
maildir patch to alpine.

> otherwise and even though pine is non-free, I'll probably NMU the
> package at least to get rid of one of the very last (is not the
> latest) switch to po-debconf bugs.

If it is so much important, patches are welcome. Please don't NMU. 



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