ITP: mp - an e-mail pretty-printer

[Douglas Bates]

mp is an e-mail pretty-printer developed by Rich Burridge at Sun.  He
uses the brief name mp but I would be happy to consider alternative
names for a Debian package if it was felt that mp could be too
confusing.

I have created a provisional package and uploaded it to my home
directory (~bates) on master.debian.org for anyone who wants to take a
look.  The copyright file reads

 This package was debianized by Douglas Bates [EMAIL PROTECTED] on
 Wed, 22 Mar 2000 14:51:23 -0600.

 It was downloaded from 
http://java.sun.com/people/richb/RichApps/mp/mpdist-3.5.1.tar.gz

 Upstream Author(s): Rich Burridge [EMAIL PROTECTED]

 Copyright: GPL Version 2

Re: ITP: mp - an e-mail pretty-printer

[Douglas Bates]

The provisional package I uploaded to my directory on master doesn't work :-/.

Turns out there is a bug in the configure script that was exposed by
building a Debian package.  The upstream maintainer has promised to
fix it after he returns from vacation April 3.  If you really want to
use it before then, you should create a symbolic link of
 ln -s /usr/share/mpdist /usr/local/lib/mp

Once the upstream sources have been fixed I will recreate the package.