with the intention of people building it manually because binaries can't be distributed (see debian/rules). So the packaging for alpine should be fixed, because Ubuntu intends you to have binary pine packages, whether or not archive.ubuntu.com has the built versions of those packages.
Even so, it's possible for people to have the pine package installed. The source package is provided in
http:// archive. ubuntu. com/ubuntu/ pool/multiverse /p/pine/
with the intention of people building it manually because binaries can't be distributed (see debian/rules). So the packaging for alpine should be fixed, because Ubuntu intends you to have binary pine packages, whether or not archive.ubuntu.com has the built versions of those packages.