Bugzilla Bug 6004

This is abook. 

Abook is a text-based addressbook program designed to use with mutt mail client.

Created an attachment (id=2817) [details]
abook.tar.gz

Two comments: You need to have either a DEPEND or RDEPEND for mutt, since that
is what it is for (does it need mutt to compile against, or just to run?)(and
yes, you need the depend even if you say in the description it is for mutt -
some people, such as myself, tend to emerge the add on package, knowing that it
will grab the main program as well, such as blackbox to get X). The bigger issue
though is that the tarball that is grabbed off of sourceforge is corrupted and
can't be uncompressed. I can either pursue this further, or you can give it a
shot and reattach/post. Just let me know, I'm easy!

Mike

Attaching dialog for posterity. I had problems with the tarball, even when 
downloaded directly from the source (without using portage), will investigate 
this week.

Sascha,

	I'll play with it and get it working. I tried downloading the
tarball directly outside of the ebuild and couldn't open it. Will
investigate further and get it working and added. Probably take me a day
or so. I'll post this and your message on bugzilla so that we have a
record for gentoo folks. Thanks!

Mike

On Tue, Aug 06, 2002 at 11:52:57AM +0200, Sascha Huedepohl wrote:
> Hi,
> sorry for replaying that way. But i'm completely unfamilia with Bugzilla
> and this was my firth bugreport.
> I don't have any idee how to react on your comment.
> 
> > ------- Additional Comments From mcummings@gentoo.org  2002-08-05 20:06 ----
---
> > Two comments: You need to have either a DEPEND or RDEPEND for mutt, since 
that
> > is what it is for (does it need mutt to compile against, or just to run?)
> 
> OK, i see your point. Actually abook doesn't need Mutt in any case. But it 
also
> doesn't make much sens without it ;)
> 
> > The bigger issue though is that the tarball that is grabbed off of 
sourceforge
> > is corrupted and can't be uncompressed. I can either pursue this further, or
> > you can give it a shot and reattach/post.
> 
> For me, the tarball is correct.  ?:)
> 
> > Just let me know, I'm easy!
> 
> It would be grate to see abook in the hands of someone competently.
> 
> regards
> sascha
> 
> --
> Sascha Huedepohl                 sascha@ravenworks.de

Sascha,

     I finished testing this and successfully installed it on i686, gcc 2.95.3.
I've added it to portage under net-mail/abook, masked until further testing
occurs (or it finds a better home - not sure about net-mail as a home for it).

Mike

Moved abook to app-misc since it didn't really fit with net-mail. Unmasked it
after a week.