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) Reproducible: Steps to Reproduce:
Assigning to the maintainer.
CC: (none) => geiger.david68210Assignee: bugsquad => cjw
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?
Note that Fedora/Redhat is using alpine 2.21 https://apps.fedoraproject.org/packages/alpine
8 months later it is still on alpine 2.03 in Mga 6.
Version: 5 => 6Hardware: i586 => All
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