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Branch: CURRENT, Version: 2.6.5, Package name: tin-2.6.5, Maintainer: pkgsrc-users

TIN: Easy to use threaded newsreader with NOV/NNTP support.


Required to run:
[converters/uulib] [lang/perl5] [devel/libidn] [devel/pcre] [news/libcanlock]

Required to build:
[pkgtools/cwrappers]

Package options: canlock, inet6, nls, termcap, tls

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Filesize: 3834.793 KB

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   2026-02-11 13:28:53 by Michael Baeuerle | Files touched by this commit (3) | Package updated
Log message:
news/tin: Update to 2.6.5

-- 2.6.5 release 20251224 "Glenury" --

 030) Thomas E. Dickey <dickey@invisible-island.net>
      ADD. update configure macros
      FIX. aclocal.m4

 029) Remus-Gabriel Chelu <remusgabriel.chelu@disroot.org>
      ADD. Romanian translation
      FIX. ro.po

 028) Bjarni Ingi Gislason <bjarniig@simnet.is>
      ADD. manpage fixes (debian bug #1093395, #1096177)
      FIX. tin.[15]

 027) Dennis Preiser <dennis@d--p.de>
      ADD. avoid macro in snprintf() as that might be a macro too
      ADD. fallback code for the !CPP_DOES_CONCAT case
      ADD. plural forms
      ADD. prefer MIME filename*-parameter over filename-parameter
      ADD. if a MIME filename parameter is empty after path removal fallback
           to the next filename parameter if available.
      ADD. PageToggleVerbatim (,)
      ADD. validate undeclared_charset in 'M'enu
      ADD. extend verbatim_handling options
      ADD. ignore col_invers_bg == col_invers_fg == -1
      ADD. page_yenc_format
      ADD. per scope hide_inline_data via attributes
      ADD. cleanup draw_page_header(), fmt_option_prompt()
      ADD. color the color-menu items while selecting the color
      ADD. serverrc-menu via ConfigServerrcMenu ('s')
      ADD. per scope getart_limit via attributes
      ADD. indicators in scopes menu to show which scopes do match
           the current group (scope_marked_global_match,
           scope_marked_local_match)
      ADD. make the mark in scopes menu for global/local scopes
           configurable (scope_marked_global, scope_marked_local)
      BUG. -L/'L' did depend on sort_article_type/sort_threads_type
           and failed for some combinations
      BUG. possible memleaks
      BUG. layout issue with multibyte chars on posting history screen
      BUG. IGNORE_ART() macro didn't honor kill_level == KILL_THREAD
      BUG. possible buffer overflow with -C
      FIX. active.c, art.c, attrib.c, charset.c, color.c, config.c, cook.c
           curses.c, feed.c, filter.c, global.c, group.c, header.c, help.c
           init.c, keymap.c, lang.c, main.c, makecfg.c, memory.c, misc.c
           nntplib.c, options_menu.c, page.c, post.c, prompt.c, refs.c
           rfc2045.c, rfc2046.c, rfc2047.c, save.c, search.c, select.c
           signal.c, string.c, tcurses.c, thread.c, xref.c, extern.h, keymap.h
           proto.h, rfc2046.h, tin.h, tinrc.h, tincfg.tbl, tin.[15]

 026) Urs Janssen <urs@tin.org>
      ADD. avoid bison warning
      ADD. use ngettext(3) for plural-forms
      ADD. avoid "install -D"
      ADD. --with-url-normalization[=[uriparser,curl] (default: yes)
           check for liburiparser or libcurl for URL normalization
      ADD. if reading via NNTP Message-ID 'L'ookup in group-, thread- and
           page level now try to find the ID via NNTP if the ID is not in
           the current group
      ADD. adjust IPv6 part of URL_REGEX
      ADD. do not check for libgsasl but zlib if not using NNTP
      ADD. move setlocale in write_overview() out of the loop
      ADD. reject invalid undeclared_charset in attributes
      ADD. if cache_overview_files is set, keep raw Subject and From
           data so the cache is build with the original data instead
           of trying recompile it from our preprocessed data.
      ADD. hash Path in overview-data
      ADD. Xref- and Path-filter to filter-menu
      ADD. ToggleInfoLastLine ('i') to OptionMenu ('M')
      ADD. ConnectionInfo ('J') to OptionMenu ('M') and PageViewAttach ('V')
      ADD. configure check for getsockopt(), setsockopt(), posix_close(),
           realpath(), lstat(), strptime(), sig_atomic_t, volatile
      ADD. set TCP_USER_TIMEOUT or TCP_CONNECTIONTIMEOUT and
           TCP_RXT_CONNDROPTIME if available
      ADD. use truncate/append for .oldnewsrc (debian bug #151113)
      ADD. detect "begin-encoded" as start of an uuencoded file with
           a base64 encoed filename.
      ADD. hide_inline_data (was hide_uue) now also can hide (partial) yenc,
           inline pgp and shar
      ADD. crc32()-fallback from Gary S. Brown
      ADD. hideline_regex tinrc/'M'enu option similar to trn4 $HIDELINE
      ADD. merge is_art_tex_encoded() into process_text_body_part()
      ADD. ALPN with TLS (RFC 7301)
      ADD. add_cmd_line_opts and disabled_nntp_cmds to serverrc, the later
           must be used to replace the now dropped --disable-xhdr-xref and
           --enable-broken-listgroup-fix configure options
      ADD. cache_overview_files and compress_overview_files to serverrc
      ADD. nntp_pipeline_limit to serverrc (DISABLE_PIPELINING replacement)
      ADD. keep_expired_filters to keep expired rules (debian bug #1109039)
      ADD. -n cmd.line.grp now also allows to specify a group not present in
           newsrc yet (same for -nw)
      ADD. 'g'oto group now works with -n even if group is not present in
           newsrc
      ADD. -L/'L'ookup Message-ID now works with -n even if Message-ID is in
           a group not present in newsrc.
      ADD. 'S'ubscribe pattern with -n may now work for groups not in newsrc
           yet (local spool with active file and/or RFC 3977 server only)
      ADD. config.guess, config.sub update
      ADD. lower 8bit check for Newsgroups, Followup-To and Distribution
           from error to warning
      ADD. prefer Xref- over Newsgroups-header if performing Message-ID
           lookups via NNTP
      ADD. lookup "DISTRIB.PATS" and use as default for Distribution
      ADD. lookup "DISTRIBUTIONS" descriptions and display if available
      ADD. evaluate To/Cc/Bcc in mailing_list-groups (debian bug #250317)
      ADD. cache connectioninfo and help pages during session once created
      ADD. show group-flag on check article page
      ADD. warn about moderated groups on check article page
      ADD. print expected file versions with -vvV
      ADD. MarkAncientArtRead ('^E') to mark old articles as read in select-
           and group-level
      ADD. improve -u performance
      BUG. do not validated news_regex URIs with libcurl/liburiparser
      BUG. in NO_LOCALE config get_author() could write outside the
           allocated screen-memory
      BUG. positive getart_limit had several bugs
      BUG. -F was not mentioned in -h
      BUG. mixed up error-messages
      BUG. missing checks for empty string in From
      BUG. possible memleaks
      BUG. "posting" to mailgroups (mailing_list=) wasn't allowed if the
           group had one of the [jnx]-flags, and the moderated warning
           was given if it had the m-flag.
      BUG. double-free group-name on a 502 response to GROUP
      REM. ISO2ASC=6 (CP437) table
      REM. configure check for atoi()
      FIX. active.c, art.c, attrib.c, auth.c, charset.c, config.c, cook.c
           crc32.c, debug.c, feed.c, filter.c, getline.c, group.c, header.c
           help.c, init.c, keymap.c, lang.c, mail.c, main.c, makecfg.c
           memory.c, misc.c, newsrc.c, nntplib.c, nntps.c, nrctbl.c
           options_menu.c, page.c, pgp.c, post.c, prompt.c, regex.c, rfc1524.c
           rfc2045.c, rfc2047.c, save.c, screen.c, search.c, select.c, signal.c
           string.c, tags.c, thread.c, xref.c, extern.h, keymap.h, nntplib.h
           policy.h, proto.h, rfc2046.h, tin.h, tinrc.h, parsdate.y
           autoconf.h[in], tincfg.tbl, Makefile[.in], configure[.in]
           config.guess, config.sub, tin.[15]

 025) Toomas Soome <tsoome@me.com>
      ADD. updated Estonian translation
      FIX. et.po
   2026-01-07 09:49:50 by Thomas Klausner | Files touched by this commit (2525)
Log message:
*: recursive bump for icu 78.1
   2025-04-17 23:53:13 by Thomas Klausner | Files touched by this commit (2449)
Log message:
*: recursive bump for icu 77 and libxml2 2.14
   2025-01-24 18:21:49 by Michael Baeuerle | Files touched by this commit (2) | Package updated
Log message:
news/tin: Update to 2.6.4

-- 2.6.4 release 20241224 "Helmsdale" --

 024) Bjarni Ingi Gislason <bjarniig@simnet.is>
      ADD. manpage fixes (debian bug #1089489)
      FIX. tin.1

 023) Thomas E. Dickey <dickey@invisible-island.net>
      REM. bundled-intl stuff
      ADD. disallow giving both --with-socks and --with-socks5
      ADD. try also libsocks5 and libsocksd if using --with-socks5
      FIX. intl/*, aclocal.m4, configure[.in], autoconf.hin, nntplib.h
           tcurses.h, Makefile[.in], conf-tin

 022) Enrik Berkhan <enrik@tin.org>
      ADD. avoid implicit conversion
      FIX. curses.c, misc.c, nntplib.c, rfc2047.c

 021) Matt Anton <tin@lv223.org>
      ADD. updated French translation
      FIX. fr.po

 020) Dennis Preiser <dennis@d--p.de>
      ADD. ArticleInfo-page ('\'')
      ADD. always cast arg to is*()-functions to unsigned char
      ADD. avoid implicit conversion
      ADD. formatted output for -vZ and large article counts
      ADD. avoid malloc()/free() overhead in match_group_list()
      ADD. dont_break_words tinrc option, if set don't break long
           lines inside words, just on SPACE or TAB if possible.
      ADD. charset guessing via undeclared_cs_guess in attributes
      ADD. syntax check for content subtype
      ADD. handle multiple addresses in From, Reply-To, Approved
      ADD. addresses in %T are now separated by comma instead of space
      ADD. no longer use fixed length buffers in t_cmdlineopts
      ADD. limit tinrc/attributes value strings to 1022 chars
           (they were "randomly" cut off before around 1k)
      ADD. avoid fixed length buffers in t_config, t_filter_rule and
           t_fmt
      ADD. "ternary"-operator to format-strings %F, %s, %T
      ADD. max screenwidth ('<') condition to format-strings
      ADD. avoid fixed length buffer for lines on terminal when using curses
      ADD. reorder t_config to avoid padding
      REM. MAX_MSG_HEADERS limitation
      BUG. txt_help_config_search_opt_forwards,
           txt_help_config_search_opt_forwards and
           txt_help_attrib_search_opt_backwards,
           txt_help_attrib_search_opt_forwards were mixed up
      BUG. memleak when using bsd-sockets without getservbyname()
      BUG. possible memleak on quit in version.c:upgrade_prompt_quit()
      BUG. multiple addresses in From, Reply-To, Approved (allowed since
           RFC 5536) we're not handled correct.
      FIX. active.c, art.c, attrib.c, charset.c, config.c, cook.c, debug.c
           feed.c, filter.c, getline.c, group.c, header.c, help.c, inews.c
           init.c, keymap.c, lang.c, main.c, mail.c, makecfg.c, memory.c
           misc.c, nntplib.c, nntps.c, options_menu.c, page.c, pgp.c, post.c
           prompt.c, refs.c, regex.c, rfc2046.c, rfc2047.c, save.c, screen.c
           search.c, select.c, sigfile.c, signal.c, string.c, tags.c, thread.c
           version.c, xref.c, parsdate.y, extern.h, keymap.h, newsrc.h, proto.h
           rfc2046.h, tin.h, tinrc.h, tincfg.tbl, tin.1, tin.5

 019) Urs Janssen <urs@tin.org>
      ADD. silence some unused parameter warnings
      ADD. avoid sscanf(3) in check_upgrade()
      ADD. avoid fixed length buffer in my_mktmp()
      ADD. configure check for buggy snprintf(3)
      ADD. changed snprintf(3) fallback implementation from Patrick Powell
           to the one by Mark Martinec
      ADD. use snprintf(3) in STRCPY macro
      ADD. config.guess, config.sub update
      ADD. avoid tmpfile(3) usage
      ADD. configure check for blockable signal-type (POSIX, BSD, SYSV, NONE)
      ADD. configure check for tiuser.h (TLI; SVR3, SVR4)
      ADD. configure check for arc4random_uniform(3), lrand48(3) and random(3)
           prefer over rand(3)
      ADD. configure check for tcflag_t
      ADD. configure check for PRIdLEAST64 and SCNdLEAST64
      ADD. configure check for ucsdet_detect() from libicui18n
      ADD. configure check for getpeername()
      ADD. configure check for uconv_open() and unicode/ucnv.h
      ADD. configure check for liburiparser
      ADD. configure check for libidn2
      ADD. simplify _Noreturn check, just note the C11 standard
      REM. configure check for varargs.h
      ADD. removed fixed buffer from copy_body()
      ADD. SASL info to connection-info ('J')
      ADD. -L cmd.line switch
      ADD. create missing newsrc-dir
      ADD. -g "[ipv6::address]"[:port] also in .newsauth and newsrctable
      ADD. check that a recipient is present in mailgroups
      ADD. mention location of files being read on startup
      ADD. only display MOTD on startup if it did change since the last
           connect (use 'J' to see it anyway).
      ADD. cache MOTD during session
      ADD. REPRODUCIBLE_BUILD define to prevent recoding of __DATE__, __TIME__,
           $CFLAGS, $CPPFLAGS and $LDFLAGS in the binary if set
      ADD. disallow Distribution: all, warn about Distribution: world
      ADD. charset guessing via undeclared_cs_guess in attributes
      ADD. disallow set but empty $NAME or $REALNAME to prevent reading
           the users name from /etc/passwd
      ADD. expand tabs in multiline wait_messages
      ADD. calculate offset to article body for postponed articles
      ADD. UNICODE-1-1, SCSU, csSCSU to unsupported charsets
      ADD. try charset conversion with ICU ucnv_* if iconv() fails or is
           not available.
      ADD. use gmtime() and 4 digigt year for NEWGROUP on RFC 3977 servers
           instead of localtime and 2 digigt year
      ADD. basic (no custom-messages) $MAILPATH support
      ADD. skip reading attributes with -Z
      ADD. skip reading filter-file with -u
      ADD. warn about -u[owXzZ] and -o[SZ] -R[ACcgkLSTZ] -XS (useless
           combinations)
      ADD. mention $TINRC value in useless combination message
      ADD. create INDEX_LOCK (used by 'u') in ${TIN_HOMEDIR:-"$HOME"}/.tin
           instead of $TMPDIR
      ADD. if reading from local spool, try to read inn >= 2.3 nov-files
           in case reading traditional nov-files failed
      ADD. allow argument names for -D (case insensitive, comma separated
           list).
      ADD. URI syntax-check and normalization it with uriNormalizeSyntaxA() if
           liburiparser was found
      ADD. $LC_NUMERIC for RADIXCHAR (used when showing attachment sizes)
      ADD. allow valid IPv6-addresses in brackets in gnksa-filters
           (requires that the system has inet_pton() and knows AF_INET6)
      ADD. allow ccTLD .ss, disallow ccTLD .an and .tp
      ADD. updated the gTLD list (needs disable_gnksa_domain_check=ON in
           tin.defaults)
      ADD. -F filter-file cmd.-line option
      ADD. warn on "Re:"/"Re: " only Subject
      ADD. allow hex-numbers for cmd.-line switches which take numeric args
      ADD. %C, %F, %P, %k, %l, %s, %u to strftime(3)-fallback
      ADD. compress_overview_files tinrc-option
      REM. tmpfile.c
      REM. --with-sum specifying the sum of uue-file got more and more
           uncommon at the end of last century and uue mostly vanished
           laster on ...
      REM. %G, %P expansion in $MAILCAPS
      BUG. AUTHINFO SASL * didn't check possible 283 return code
           (as we do not support anything but SASL PLAIN yet, not an issue)
      BUG. -t not mentioned in -h
      BUG. malloc(3)- and fopen(3)-leaks on error exits
      BUG. didn't remove '.' from normalized charset when looking for a
           keymap-file
      BUG. socket(3)-leak on early exit due to TLS-errors
      BUG. possible NULL-pointer dereference in connection-info ('J') if
           CAPABILITIES does not return IMPLEMENTATION
      BUG. wrong sign for shown default kill-score value in kill-menu
      BUG. art_mark_xref_read() didn't allow '\t' between locations
      BUG. a From longer than > cCOLS wasn't properly truncated
           before appending organitazion in the pager
      BUG. may truncate format string instead of result in draw_page_header
      BUG. -X did not disallow EditFilter and -S
      BUG. -o did not read keymap-file but it may ask questions so it should.
      BUG. -vD NTTP didn't log full LISTGROUP responses
      FIX. active.c, art.c, attrib.c, auth.c, charset.c, config.c, cook.c
           curses.c, debug.c, feed.c, filter.c, getline.c, global.c, group.c
           header.c, help.c, inews.c, init.c, keymap.c, lang.c, list.c, lock.c
           mail.c, main.c, makecfg.c, memory.c, mimetypes.c, misc.c
           my_tmpfile.c, newsrc.c, nntplib.c, nntps.c, nrctbl.c, options_menu.c
           page.c, pgp.c, post.c, prompt.c, read.c, refs.c, regex.c, rfc1524.c
           rfc2046.c, rfc2047.c, save.c, screen.c, search.c, select.c
           sigfile.c, signal.c, snprintf.c, string.c, tags.c, tcurses.c
           thread.c, version.c, xface.c, xref.c, parsdate.y, debug.h, extern.h
           nntplib.h, policy.h, proto.h, snprintf.h, tin.h, tinrc.h, tnntp.h
           tincfg.tbl, autoconf.h[in], configure[.in], Makefile[.in]
           config.guess, config.sub, tin.1, tin.5
   2024-11-14 23:22:33 by Thomas Klausner | Files touched by this commit (2428)
Log message:
*: recursive bump for icu 76 shlib major version bump
   2024-11-01 13:55:19 by Thomas Klausner | Files touched by this commit (2425)
Log message:
*: revbump for icu downgrade
   2024-11-01 01:54:33 by Thomas Klausner | Files touched by this commit (2426)
Log message:
*: recursive bump for icu 76.1 shlib bump
   2024-05-29 18:35:19 by Adam Ciarcinski | Files touched by this commit (1928) | Package updated
Log message:
revbump after icu and protobuf updates