Bug 17112

Summary:	Alpine 2.03 is old. Later version (2.20) is available
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	w unruh <unruh>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	Christiaan Welvaart <cjw>
Status:	RESOLVED OLD	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	Normal	CC:	geiger.david68210, ouaurelien
Version:	6
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Source RPM:	alpine 2.03	CVE:
Status comment:

Description w unruh 2015-11-08 06:42:35 CET

alpine 2.03 which is what is contained in Mageia 5 was released 3 years ago (re-alpine) 
Eduardo Chappa has released a newer version, 2.20 at the beginning of 2015 and is actively developing it. 
Mageia should probably include a more recent version in the distribution. 

http://patches.freeiz.com/alpine/

His explanation in comp.mail.pine is

> When Alpine was discontinued, the Alpine-team released version 2.00, but 
> they had an unfinished version 2.01, which was released as the first 
> version of re-alpine. Then re-alpine 2.03 had some improvements over the 
> 2.01 version. However, no more development has continued from there, so no 
> bugs have been fixed, since their last release.
>
> I released version 2.10 fixing the bugs in version 2.03 and 2.01, and 
> adding a few features. Alpine 2.20 improves S/MIME support. The current 
> alpha version is 2.20.9, is still under development. I just made an update 
> today. So, Alpine development continues, but re-alpine development is not 
> clear where it is going. I hope they will restart development some day.
>
> I hope this helps to clarify the difference between the two. (alpine and re-alpine)


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Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1 David GEIGER 2015-11-09 17:55:01 CET

Assigning to the maintainer.

CC: (none) => geiger.david68210
Assignee: bugsquad => cjw

Comment 2 w unruh 2017-11-13 19:22:55 CET

Could Mageia please put in this year's alpine 2.21 from Chappa. 2.03 is by now extremely old, unsupported, and buggy. Please. 
Yes, some of us still use alpine.
Is the maintainer cjw still around?

Comment 3 w unruh 2017-11-13 19:49:15 CET

Note that Fedora/Redhat is using alpine 2.21
https://apps.fedoraproject.org/packages/alpine

Comment 4 w unruh 2018-07-12 09:20:19 CEST

8 months later it is still on alpine 2.03 in Mga 6.

Version: 5 => 6
Hardware: i586 => All

Comment 5 Aurelien Oudelet 2020-08-16 17:43:14 CEST

Mageia 6 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2019-09-30. It is no longer 
maintained, which means that it will not receive any further security or bug 
fix updates.

Package Maintainer: If you wish for this bug to remain open because you plan 
to fix it in a currently maintained version, simply change the 'version' to 
a later Mageia version.

Bug Reporter: Thank you for reporting this issue and we are sorry that we 
weren't able to fix it before Mageia 6's end of life. If you are able to 
reproduce it against a later version of Mageia, you are encouraged to click 
on "Version" and change it against that version of Mageia.

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Best regards,
Aurélien
Bugsquad Team

Resolution: (none) => OLD
CC: (none) => ouaurelien
Status: NEW => RESOLVED