Suresh Ramasubramanian saw fit to inform me that:
>Rajesh Fowkar rearranged electrons thusly:
>
>> Download the sources (tar.gz). Why are you going for .deb files
>> for sources ? It is very easy to compile mutt. Just download the
>> mutt.tar.gz file and follow the instructions in INSTALL file.
>
> That's one thing - Debian _seems_ to prefer patching older versions of various
> apps instead of moving to newer versions. Even the stuff in their testing
> pool has several debian specific patches, most of the time. [I dont use
> debian, saw this on a friend's debian box once, so I may well be wrong]
I am also a newbie to Debian. The point what u made may be
correct. I have just removed mutt which I had installed from .deb
( apt-get remove mutt ) and then compiled the tar.gz of
mutt-1.3.15 and hence forth I can just apply the patches and
upgrade my version of mutt :-)
Regards
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