Alpine modification request

Hy Ginsberg · 2009-02-04 03:49:45

Hi all,

I use the Alpine email client, a truly excellent piece of software. But the darn thing defaults to "Reply to All" when replying to an email that isn't addressed directly to you. So if you're not careful, you end up being *that moron* that replies to the whole conference with his registration issues. Which is what I just did -- I am that moron. Might whoever manages the package hammer the source code to do the right thing -- the default for "Reply to All" should obviously be NO....

Many thanks.

- Hy

SamC · 2009-02-04 04:04:01

You can't expect the arch maintainers to change software just how you want it. You should ask the upstream maintainers.

ckristi · 2009-02-04 13:41:14

FYI: http://www.washington.edu/alpine/

Hy Ginsberg · 2009-02-05 00:42:57

Hi all,

I have been communicating with the developers of Alpine. Here is what's going on:

From hubert@washington.edu Wed Feb 4 19:18:03 2009
Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2009 16:18:00 -0800 (PST)
From: Steve Hubert <hubert@washington.edu>
To: Hy Ginsberg <hginsber@cems.uvm.edu>
Cc: alpine-contact@u.washington.edu
Subject: Re: AIC: Reply to All Should default to NO
Hy,
Found the problem. Maybe you know of a guy named Eduardo Chappa. He has
a set of patches (http://staff.washington.edu/chappa/alpine) that he
distributes for alpine and since many people like them some of the
distributions use his patched version instead of the version from us. We
think this is a bug in one of his changes.
He says that you are probably seeing a menu that looks like
Reply to all recipients?
? Help Y [Yes] P Preserve
^C Cancel N No
Eduardo says that he didn't realize the default was No in our version and
he mistakenly made it Yes in his patch.
He apologizes profusely!
He says he has now updated the patch so that the default is No.
Your alpine will get fixed only after Arch Linux updates their version
from Eduardo's patch and then you get that udpate, so I guess you may want
to notify Arch Linux about the fixed patch from Eduardo.
Steve

So I am hoping that this post gets the word out to whoever oversees the package. If there is a more direct method, maybe somebody would be kind enough to enlighten me (or pass this along).

Thanks,
- Hy

rson451 · 2009-02-05 01:22:59

Reading the PKGBUILD here it seems there there are some patches being applied, but I'm not sure what patches they are. In the meantime you can rebuild this package yourself using the PKGBUILD above. If the patches have indeed been updated then there should be no modification needed.

Last edited by rson451 (2009-02-05 01:24:13)

dolby · 2009-02-05 04:47:09

Its the all patch that contains all patches available at the time in 1.
Maybe make a request for Snowman to rebuild alpine. I assume he is still the maintainer.
Paste the link to this thread.

edit: the request should be made on bugs.archlinux.org of course

Last edited by dolby (2009-02-05 04:48:34)

Snowman · 2009-02-05 05:51:33

dolby wrote:

Its the all patch that contains all patches available at the time in 1.
Maybe make a request for Snowman to rebuild alpine. I assume he is still the maintainer.
Paste the link to this thread.
edit: the request should be made on bugs.archlinux.org of course

FTR: the OP already contacted me by email. Alpine will be rebuilt.

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#1 2009-02-04 03:49:45

Alpine modification request

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Re: Alpine modification request

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Re: Alpine modification request

#5 2009-02-05 01:22:59

Re: Alpine modification request

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Re: Alpine modification request

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