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diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index 6d5ef94c..3984df71 100644
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -7,7 +7,8 @@ if they want to import mail into their personal inboxes.
public-inbox is developed on Debian GNU/Linux systems and will
never depend on packages outside of the "main" component of
-the "stable" distribution, currently Debian 9.x ("stretch")
+the "stable" distribution, currently Debian 10.x ("buster"),
+but older versions of Debian remain supported.
Most packages are available in other GNU/Linux distributions
and FreeBSD.
@@ -21,9 +22,9 @@ Requirements
public-inbox requires a number of other packages to access its full
functionality. The core tools are, of course:
-* Git (1.8.0+, 2.6+ for writing v2 repositories)
+* Git (1.8.0+, 2.6+ for writing v2 inboxes)
* Perl 5.10.1+
-* DBD::SQLite (needed for NNTP, message threading, and v2 repositories)
+* DBD::SQLite (needed for NNTP, message threading, and v2 inboxes)
To accept incoming mail into a public inbox, you'll likely want:
@@ -44,8 +45,8 @@ Beyond that, there is a long list of Perl modules required, starting with:
rpm: perl-URI
(for HTML/Atom generation)
-Plack and Date::Parse will be optional when v1.3.0 is released,
-but required for current and older releases:
+Plack and Date::Parse are optional as of public-inbox v1.3.0,
+but required for older releases:
* Plack deb: libplack-perl
pkg: p5-Plack
@@ -80,7 +81,7 @@ Numerous optional modules are likely to be useful as well:
not needed as systemd services or
foreground servers)
-- Inline::C[7] deb: libinline-c-perl
+- Inline::C deb: libinline-c-perl
pkg: pkg-Inline-C
(speeds up process spawning on Linux,
see public-inbox-daemon(8))
@@ -145,10 +146,10 @@ above, so there is no need to explicitly install them:
- Filesys::Notify::KQueue pkg: p5-Filesys-Notify-KQueue
(for public-inbox-watch on FreeBSD)
-- IO::Compress::Gzip deb: perl-modules (or libio-compress-perl)
+- IO::Compress (::Gzip) deb: perl-modules (or libio-compress-perl)
pkg: perl5
rpm: perl-IO-Compress
- (for gzipped mbox over HTTP)
+ (for gzipped mbox over HTTP, v2 format)
Uncommonly needed modules:
@@ -174,9 +175,9 @@ Optional packages testing and development:
pkg: perl5
rpm: perl-Test-Simple
-- XML::Feed deb: libxml-feed-perl
- pkg: p5-XML-Feed
- rpm: perl-XML-Feed
+- XML::TreePP deb: libxml-treepp-perl
+ pkg: p5-XML-TreePP
+ rpm: perl-XML-TreePP
standard MakeMaker installation (Perl)
--------------------------------------
@@ -210,5 +211,5 @@ the installation is complete.
Copyright
---------
-Copyright 2013-2019 all contributors
+Copyright 2013-2020 all contributors
License: AGPL-3.0+