Hi Daniel, > Wasn't heirloom-mailx (the predecessor of s-nail) the primary mailx > provider for Debian?
No, that must have been bsd-mailx. > In any event, h-m originally provided /usr/bin/mail and the upgrade path > causes this to disappear. Scripts breaking due to mail(1) interface > variations is a pain, but scripts breaking due to mail(1) disappearing > altogether is a regression. Oh, I see. There are a number of packages which depend on heirloom-mailx | mailx... Those packages need some grave bugs reported, then. Damn. > When I read "/usr/bin/mail interface," that implies to me that there is > a /usr/bin/mail executable. Was the description intended to mean > something like "mailx-style interface?" To be honest, I don't know. I read that as the command-line user interface one might know from mailx. Cheers, -Hilko
