Russ Allbery <r...@debian.org> writes: > Piotr Kaczuba <p...@attika.ath.cx> writes:
>> Before 1.2.65 logcheck depended on mailx, which was and still is >> provided by both mailutils and bsd-mailx. Now that logcheck depends >> explicitly on bsd-mailx, you can't have installed both logcheck and >> mailutils because mailutils and bsd-mailx exclude each other. > mailx is not a registered virtual package name in Policy. It sounds like > it should be? If unrelated packages should know about it for > dependencies, I don't think it meets the "private use among coordinated > packages" exception. I propose the following addition. Seconds or objections? (As mentioned elsewhere in the file, the * indicates that the providing packages are using alternatives, which appears to be the case.) diff --git a/virtual-package-names-list.txt b/virtual-package-names-list.txt index 9ba66e5..7944d8d 100644 --- a/virtual-package-names-list.txt +++ b/virtual-package-names-list.txt @@ -123,6 +123,7 @@ News and Mail imap-server an IMAP mail server mail-reader a mail user agent (e.g. Pine, Elm, mailx, &c) mail-transport-agent a mail transport agent (e.g. Smail, Sendmail, &c) + mailx a /usr/bin/mailx binary (*) news-reader a news reader (e.g. trn, tin, &c) news-transport-system a local news system (e.g. INN, C News or B News) pgp a version of PGP (International or US) -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-policy-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/22215_1282160346_4c6c36da_22215_85650_3_87hbird8eo.fsf...@windlord.stanford.edu
