Bugzilla Bug 3719

The pine patch pine-4.44-multibyte.patch really messes up Pine in a lot of
ways.  I recommend removing it.
  
In particular, in some terminals (e.g., xterm), it causes the erase
character to not delete newlines.  It also causes Pine to abort if you    
postpone composing a message.  Furthermore, it causes problems if you are
inserting text into the middle of a line, and the line wraps as you type  
into the next line, it causes major problems in the text you type (really 
wierd stuff).

what is this patch for? I can't seem to find anything about it anywhwere.
there's no mention of what it's for in the ebuild.

$ ls -l /usr/portage/net-mail/pine/files/pine-4.44-multibyte.patch
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root         3704 Feb 21 17:24
/usr/portage/net-mail/pine/files/pine-4.44-multibyte.patch

$ grep multibyte /usr/portage/net-mail/pine/pine-4.44-r4.ebuild 
	patch -d ${S} -p1 < ${FILESDIR}/pine-4.44-multibyte.patch

 Right, and my question was "What is it for?" I can see that it's there.... 

Beats me.  ChangeLog commit was:

  Revamped our ebuild to use RH patches so that I could
  include SSL and LDAP support (both controlled by use variables).  I don't
  know enough about pine to test it properly.

I've posted in the forums about this (
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?p=64226 ) before thinking to check if
there was an actual bug on this.  I see that there is.

I confirm the "really weird stuff" problems when composing a message.  Note that
the weird stuff didn't seem to happen when I used vi as the message editor, but
that was just a pain in the butt for typing email.

Have you confirmed that this behavior is gone if you comment out the patch line
in the ebuild?

Yes, the problem does go away with the patch line commented out.

I haven't looked at all that is in the patch.  I do need LDAP support in my
pine
though.  Am I to understand that LDAP support won't be compiled in without this
patch?

If that is the case then we need to identify which part of this patch is the
problem.  Who wrote the patch?

Why are you mentioning LDAP?  This patch has nothing to do with LDAP.

Comment #4 mentioned something about LDAP and SSL and I thought it was implying
that the patch was addressing those issues.

Confirming that commenting out multibyte patch fixed the problem.

It seems that no one knows what it does, except screw things up.  Why don't we
comment it out in the CVS ebuild for now?

RedHat's bugzilla describes the patch as relating to Asian character sets:

http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=58971

The patch is unrelated to SSL and LDAP, as the ChangeLog might erroneously
imply.  Note these comments from RedHat's bugzilla:

Additional comment by terbak@add.no 2002-03-16 19:04:18

This patch is way broken with pine: the word-wrapping is broken, backspace on 
first column does not bring the text up one line, and pine crashes when writing 
a bit.

Additional comment by mharris@redhat.com 2002-03-17 11:37:37

Indeed.  Patch removed from pine-4.44-6 release for stabilization.
At this point I will not permit this patch to be included as it can
interfere with the standard operation of PINE.  Such enhancements
should be made by submitting patches to the PINE team themselves.

Thanks terbak for tracking the wordwrap problem down.

commented out the patch line in cvs.