* Daniel Richard G.: > Package: s-nail > Version: 14.8.16-1 > > heirloom-mailx may have been superseded by s-nail, but the latter fails > to provide the /usr/bin/mail and /usr/bin/mailx frontends as the former.
This is intentional, see #847049. It turned out that the /usr/bin/mail "interface" was not well-defined and having the alternative set to s-nail broke scripts provided by other packages. > Note that the package description for bsd-mailx indicates that this > package (s-nail) provides /usr/bin/mail . That's not quite how I read the description. I'm open to suggestions for improvements, though. > Also, the s-nail package in Ubuntu Xenial (14.8.6-1 as of this > writing) does Provide: mail-reader, mailx . I'd expect this to change by the time Ubuntu Z-whatever (17.04) is released: Ubuntu's s-nail package is taken from Debian -- just before I removed the "Provides:" header. Cheers, -Hilko
