bug#26320: Alpine News and Mail client

[Kei Kebreau]

ng0 <address@hidden> writes:

> The appended patch adds Alpine. It was discontinued by its previous
> developer team and is now being developed at
> "http://patches.freeiz.com/alpine/index.html";. There are two versions,
> both released by the same developer. The one which every distro uses is
> the one with extra, functionality enhancing and bugs fixing patches applied.
> This is the one I picked to not break expectations of people.
>
> It compiles, builds, and can be started. I don't know this client and
> only worked on it to complete the dinosaurs of mail clients collection
> as some people still seem to use Alpine on other distros.
> I haven't tested sending mail or receiving mail for obvious reasons. 
> and I do not trust applications I rarely use.
>
>>From 932623f11a7f11173051c4f87683fe52052642ba Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: ng0 <address@hidden>
> Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2017 03:20:38 +0000
> Subject: [PATCH] gnu: Add alpine.
>
> * gnu/packages/mail.scm (alpine): New variable.
> ---
>  gnu/packages/mail.scm | 56 
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
>  1 file changed, 54 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/gnu/packages/mail.scm b/gnu/packages/mail.scm
> index e36f884ea..d62437aa5 100644
> --- a/gnu/packages/mail.scm
> +++ b/gnu/packages/mail.scm
> @@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
>  ;;; Copyright © 2016 Lukas Gradl <address@hidden>
>  ;;; Copyright © 2016 Alex Kost <address@hidden>
>  ;;; Copyright © 2016 Troy Sankey <address@hidden>
> -;;; Copyright © 2016, 2017 <address@hidden>
> +;;; Copyright © 2016, 2017 ng0 <address@hidden>
>  ;;; Copyright © 2016 Clément Lassieur <address@hidden>
>  ;;; Copyright © 2016, 2017 Arun Isaac <address@hidden>
>  ;;; Copyright © 2016 John Darrington <address@hidden>
> @@ -39,6 +39,7 @@
>  
>  (define-module (gnu packages mail)
>    #:use-module (gnu packages)
> +  #:use-module (gnu packages aspell)
>    #:use-module (gnu packages autotools)
>    #:use-module (gnu packages base)
>    #:use-module (gnu packages backup)
> @@ -62,6 +63,7 @@
>    #:use-module (gnu packages gtk)
>    #:use-module (gnu packages guile)
>    #:use-module (gnu packages flex)
> +  #:use-module (gnu packages kerberos)
>    #:use-module (gnu packages libcanberra)
>    #:use-module (gnu packages libevent)
>    #:use-module (gnu packages libidn)
> @@ -69,6 +71,7 @@
>    #:use-module (gnu packages lua)
>    #:use-module (gnu packages m4)
>    #:use-module (gnu packages ncurses)
> +  #:use-module (gnu packages openldap)
>    #:use-module (gnu packages pcre)
>    #:use-module (gnu packages perl)
>    #:use-module (gnu packages python)
> @@ -84,6 +87,7 @@
>    #:use-module (gnu packages ruby)
>    #:use-module (gnu packages samba)
>    #:use-module (gnu packages screen)
> +  #:use-module (gnu packages tcl)
>    #:use-module (gnu packages tls)
>    #:use-module (gnu packages networking)
>    #:use-module (gnu packages web)
> @@ -94,7 +98,7 @@
>                  #:select (gpl2 gpl2+ gpl3 gpl3+ lgpl2.1 lgpl2.1+ lgpl3+
>                             non-copyleft (expat . license:expat) bsd-3
>                             public-domain bsd-4 isc (openssl . 
> license:openssl)
> -                           bsd-2 x11-style agpl3))
> +                           bsd-2 x11-style agpl3 asl2.0))
>    #:use-module (guix packages)
>    #:use-module (guix download)
>    #:use-module (guix git-download)
> @@ -2141,3 +2145,51 @@ Options can be specified in environment variables, 
> configuration files, and
>  the command line allowing maximum configurability and ease of use for
>  operators and scripters.")
>      (license gpl2+)))
> +
> +(define-public alpine
> +  (package
> +    (name "alpine")
> +    (version "2.21")
> +    (source
> +     (origin
> +       (method url-fetch)
> +       ;; There are two versions: the plain continuation of Alpine without 
> extra
> +       ;; patches and the version which adds extra fixes. Every distro uses
> +       ;; the patched version, and so do we to not break expectations.
> +       ;; http://patches.freeiz.com/alpine/readme/README.patches
> +       (uri (string-append "http://patches.freeiz.com/alpine/patches/alpine-";
> +                           version "/alpine-" version ".tar.xz"))
> +       (sha256
> +        (base32
> +         "1k9hcfjywfk3mpsl71hjza3nk6icgf1b6xxzgx10kdzg5yci5x5m"))))

Could you add a snippet that corrects the time-dependent code? Grepping
(is that a word?) for "datestamp" in alpine's source directory should
show you the offending code.

> +    (build-system gnu-build-system)
> +    (arguments
> +     `(#:make-flags (list "CC=gcc")
> +       #:configure-flags (list (string-append "--with-ssl-include-dir="
> +                                              (assoc-ref %build-inputs 
> "openssl")
> +                                              "/include/openssl")
> +                               (string-append "--with-ssl-dir="
> +                                              (assoc-ref %build-inputs 
> "openssl"))
> +                               (string-append "--with-ssl-certs-dir="
> +                                              "/etc/ssl/certs/")
> +                               (string-append "--with-ssl-lib-dir="
> +                                              (assoc-ref %build-inputs 
> "openssl")
> +                                              "/lib")
> +                               (string-append 
> "--with-interactive-spellcheck="
> +                                              (assoc-ref %build-inputs 
> "aspell")
> +                                              "/bin/aspell"))))
> +    (inputs
> +     `(("ncurses" ,ncurses)
> +       ("openssl" ,openssl)
> +       ("gnutls" ,gnutls)
> +       ("openldap" ,openldap)
> +       ("cyrus-sasl" ,cyrus-sasl)
> +       ("mit-krb5" ,mit-krb5)
> +       ("aspell" ,aspell)
> +       ("tcl" ,tcl)
> +       ("linux-pam" ,linux-pam)))
> +    (home-page "http://patches.freeiz.com/alpine/";)
> +    (synopsis "Alternatively Licensed Program for Internet News and Email")
> +    (description
> +     "Alpine is a text-based mail and news client.")

Maybe this can be a bit more descriptive, but then again, the mutt mail
client has a fairly modest description as well.

> +    (license asl2.0)))

Other than that, the patch looks good. Sadly I'm not a user of alpine
so I can't test its functionality. Do any alpine users want to step up
to the plate and try this out?

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