"Giacomo A. Catenazzi" <c...@debian.org> writes: > Note: I was replying to your "out of curiosity".
> To answer the original question: > I agree to make "mailx" a virtual package. > And I agree to specify that the mailx provides the > POSIX interfaces of mailx Here's an updated patch. diff --git a/virtual-package-names-list.txt b/virtual-package-names-list.txt index 9ba66e5..2308d39 100644 --- a/virtual-package-names-list.txt +++ b/virtual-package-names-list.txt @@ -123,6 +123,8 @@ 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 that provides at least + the POSIX mailx interface (*) 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/874oep9bpt....@windlord.stanford.edu