[Logcheck-devel] Bug#488102: logcheck: please revert bsd-mailx dependency

[martin f krafft]

clone 488102 -1
reassign -1 debian-policy
retitle -1 make mailx a registered virtual package name
severity -1 wishlist
thanks

also sprach Russ Allbery <rra at debian.org> [2008.06.27.0212 +0200]:
> Piotr Kaczuba <pepe at 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.
> 
> (This doesn't change anything that you're saying about logcheck, just
> implies that there's also a Policy bug.)

Cloned.

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