Bug#488214: make mailx a registered virtual package name

2010-08-27 Thread Russ Allbery
"Giacomo A. Catenazzi" writes: > On 21.08.2010 08:36, Raphael Hertzog wrote: >> On Fri, 20 Aug 2010, Russ Allbery wrote: >>> 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-pa

Bug#488214: make mailx a registered virtual package name

2010-08-25 Thread Giacomo A. Catenazzi
On 21.08.2010 08:36, Raphael Hertzog wrote: On Fri, 20 Aug 2010, Russ Allbery wrote: 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 M

Bug#488214: make mailx a registered virtual package name

2010-08-20 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Fri, 20 Aug 2010, Russ Allbery wrote: > 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 IM

Bug#488214: make mailx a registered virtual package name

2010-08-20 Thread Russ Allbery
"Giacomo A. Catenazzi" 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-packa

Bug#488214: make mailx a registered virtual package name

2010-08-19 Thread Giacomo A. Catenazzi
On 19.08.2010 09:45, Russ Allbery wrote: "Giacomo A. Catenazzi" writes: On 18.08.2010 23:38, Russ Allbery wrote: Julien Cristau writes: Is there a spec somewhere about the command line arguments for mailx? I know that bsd-mailx and heirloom-mailx do completely different things for -a, e.g

Bug#488214: make mailx a registered virtual package name

2010-08-19 Thread Russ Allbery
"Giacomo A. Catenazzi" writes: > On 18.08.2010 23:38, Russ Allbery wrote: >> Julien Cristau writes: >>> Is there a spec somewhere about the command line arguments for mailx? >>> I know that bsd-mailx and heirloom-mailx do completely different >>> things for -a, e.g., which is a major pain, and I

Bug#488214: make mailx a registered virtual package name

2010-08-19 Thread Giacomo A. Catenazzi
On 18.08.2010 23:38, Russ Allbery wrote: Julien Cristau writes: On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 12:31:59 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: I propose the following addition. Seconds or objections? (As mentioned elsewhere in the file, the * indicates that the providing packages are using alternatives, whic

Bug#488214: make mailx a registered virtual package name

2010-08-18 Thread Russ Allbery
Julien Cristau writes: > On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 12:31:59 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: >> 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.) > Is th

Bug#488214: make mailx a registered virtual package name

2010-08-18 Thread Julien Cristau
On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 12:31:59 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Russ Allbery writes: > > Piotr Kaczuba 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 h

Bug#488214: make mailx a registered virtual package name

2010-08-18 Thread Russ Allbery
Russ Allbery writes: > Piotr Kaczuba 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-ma