New package: balsa

[Pawel Salek]

On 06/10/2005 06:23:09 PM, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-06-09 at 21:22 +0000, Pawel Salek wrote:
> > On 06/08/2005 04:30:15 PM, Michael A. Peters wrote:
> > > I'll see if I can get libesmtp to build in rawhide in gcc4.
> That's
> > > probably a blocker.
> 
>>  Another way would be to include libesmtp package in balsa as an    
>> additional tarball - this would require some patching though   
>> because    currently libesmtp loads authentication plugins with  
>> dlopen() and  its   author is very fond of it. Does anybody know of  
>> other applications   using libesmtp? I think pan is one but I do not  
>> know its status.
> 
>  This should be avoided whenever possible.  If a library has a   
> separate  tarball it should be packaged separately.  That way someone  
> else  developing something that could use libesmtp will know it's  
> there to  be  played with.  Besides, if it won't build with gcc4  
> alone, it won't  matter if it's in its own packag or the balsa  
> package.

Yes, it makes sense. I have submitted libesmtp for inclusion in FE -  
please approve.

Pawel