./news/trn, Threaded version of rn, the classic news reader

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Branch: CURRENT, Version: 4.77nb7, Package name: trn-4.77nb7, Maintainer: pkgsrc-users

Trn is Threaded RN -- a newsreader that uses an article's references to
order the discussions in a very natural, reply-ordered sequence called
threads. Having the replies associated with their parent articles not
only makes following the discussion easier, but also makes it easy to back-
track and (re-)read a specific discussion from the beginning. Trn also
has a visual representation of the current thread in the upper right corner
of the header, which will give you a feel for how the discussion is going
and how the current article is related to the last one you read.

In addition, a thread selector makes it easy to browse through a large
group looking for interesting articles. You can even browse through the
articles you've already read and select the one(s) you wish to read again.
Other nice features include the extract commands for the source and binary
groups, thread-oriented kill directives, a better newgroup finding strategy,
and lots more.

Trn includes a program named "rn", which is backwards-compatible and
starts up trn in "non-threaded" mode.


Required to run:
[lang/perl5] [news/nntpclnt]

Required to build:
[pkgtools/cwrappers]

Package options: trn-nntpclnt

Master sites:

Filesize: 551.459 KB

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   2024-04-24 16:39:31 by Jonathan Perkin | Files touched by this commit (1) 
Log message:
trn: Add NOT_FOR_BULK_PLATFORM for Darwin.

For some reason this software tries to locate libc.  On at least modern
versions of macOS this fails and so it runs an interactive program to
ask the user where it lives.  This causes infinite loops in bulk builds.
   2022-12-15 12:30:37 by Jonathan Perkin | Files touched by this commit (1) 
Log message:
trn: Pass LDFLAGS, fixes ncurses build.
   2022-06-28 13:38:00 by Thomas Klausner | Files touched by this commit (3952) 
Log message:
*: recursive bump for perl 5.36
   2021-10-26 13:09:37 by Nia Alarie | Files touched by this commit (27) 
Log message:
news: Replace RMD160 checksums with BLAKE2s checksums

All checksums have been double-checked against existing RMD160 and
SHA512 hashes
   2021-10-07 16:45:00 by Nia Alarie | Files touched by this commit (27) 
Log message:
news: Remove SHA1 hashes for distfiles
   2021-05-24 21:56:06 by Thomas Klausner | Files touched by this commit (3575) 
Log message:
*: recursive bump for perl 5.34
   2020-08-31 20:13:29 by Thomas Klausner | Files touched by this commit (3631) 
Log message:
*: bump PKGREVISION for perl-5.32.
   2020-07-05 15:35:31 by Olaf Seibert | Files touched by this commit (3) 
Log message:
news/trn: Add patch with date grammar rules for old articles from olduse.net.