Hi. I made a proposal to change the mail spool from mail.mail to root.mail.
Still looking for seconds. Those who think root.mail is wrong should perhaps make a counter-proposal which adds a suitable rationale for using mail.mail (is there a rationale for that?). I wonder how would we deal with this bug if we followed the procedure proposed by Ian. Would I be the person to decide about this just because I happen to maintain base-files, which is the *only* package which has to implement this policy?