On Wed, Feb 13, 2002 at 09:26:41AM -0800, Nick Jennings wrote: > The README.Debian does _not_ contain this information. > > The only mention is: > > To enable SSL support you need to install the libgcrypt1 and gnutls0 > packages. > > NOW i can see what that means, but it would be nice if it was a > bit clearer:
How much clearer could it get? "To enable SSL support, you need to install <packages>". If you install <packages>, SSL support is enabled. Maintainer CC'd. > I _assumed_ that when it said you need those packages it was > reffering to them needing to be installed to compile mutt. > (Since this is what you used to have to do to get SSL support in mutt). > > Of course now I see the mistake, it might avoid confusion of others > who are used to the old way of doing this with mutt. To that end, it could include a note reading "Unlike previous versions of mutt, you do not need to rebuild the package to enable SSL." > Also, in woody, the default mutt (1.3.27?) although is supposed to support > SSL and is linked against gnutls0 does not work. It gets an error trying > to access some X509 method in the library at runtime with you add the ssl > stuff in your muttrc I can't speak to this; perhaps the maintainer can address it if you give more details about the error. -- - mdz
