Without this patch, alpine silently(?) complains until a
$HOME/.pinerc exists:

Global config "/gnu/store/57k152vswq14m2ialxacmnrkar17vcan-alpine-2.21/lib/pine.conf" is default
Personal config "/home/user/.pinerc" is default
Exceptions config not set on cmdline
  checking for default "/home/user/.pinercex" in pinerc dir
    no, there is no exceptions config
    
      Global config:     /gnu/store/57k152vswq14m2ialxacmnrkar17vcan-alpine-2.21/lib/pine.conf
        Personal config:   /home/user/.pinerc
          Exceptions config: <none>
            Fixed config:      /gnu/store/57k152vswq14m2ialxacmnrkar17vcan-alpine-2.21/lib/pine.conf.fixed
            
            reading_pinerc "/gnu/store/57k152vswq14m2ialxacmnrkar17vcan-alpine-2.21/lib/pine.conf"
            so_get error: /gnu/store/57k152vswq14m2ialxacmnrkar17vcan-alpine-2.21/lib/pine.conf : No such file or directory
            Open failed: No such file or directory
            reading_pinerc "/home/user/.pinerc"
            Read 24568 characters:
            reading_pinerc "/gnu/store/57k152vswq14m2ialxacmnrkar17vcan-alpine-2.21/lib/pine.conf.fixed"
            so_get error: /gnu/store/57k152vswq14m2ialxacmnrkar17vcan-alpine-2.21/lib/pine.conf.fixed : No such file or directory
            Open failed: No such file or directory
            

With this patch, we profive these missing files.
The way they are created is copied from slackware and seems to be
the recommended way of providing them, as no such file exists in
the distribution of alpine.
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