On Fri, Jul 07, 2017 at 04:39:48PM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > Argh, I am sorry. I meant to say just the opposite by leaving out the > extra "not", In fact, various packages have been demoted from Priority > standard or important to optional in recent years. This includes the > venerable "ed" text editor for instance, and also any package providing > /usr/bin/mail. Apparently the reason is that they pull in an MTA which > is also no longer included by default. Which seems sensible to me BTW.
It isn't? On one of the new stretch machines referenced in my original post, I get: ~$ dpkg -s exim4 | grep Priority Priority: standard -- Dave Sherohman
