[Remind-Fans] Debian package

[Christopher Browne]

On 9/20/07, David F. Skoll <dfs at roaringpenguin.com> wrote:
> Justin Alcorn wrote:
>
> > Debian etch includes version 3.00.24-4.  I'd like to start playing with
> > some of the new features, but I'm trying to avoid getting off the
> > 'Debian way'.
>
> I wouldn't worry about it.  Remind has so few dependencies that installing
> from source is not a big deal.  (I run Debian and Ubuntu on all my machines,
> but Remind is installed from source.)

I just pulled Debian sources (apt-get source remind) and went through
the process of reconciling differences against 3.01.02, and it wasn't
a hideous process.

A number of the patches against 3.00.24 go away, because the issues
have since been fixed.
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