Package: heirloom-mailx
Version: 14.8.16-1
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
I upgraded from jessie to stretch, and I expected to continue using
heirloom-mailx as my implementation of mailx. But my system was
somehow switched to bsd-mailx. Worse, update-alternatives is not
capable of changing back:
nr@homedog ~/e/j/tufts> sudo update-alternatives --config mailx
There are 2 choices for the alternative mailx (providing /usr/bin/mailx).
Selection Path Priority Status
------------------------------------------------------------
* 0 /usr/bin/bsd-mailx 50 auto mode
1 /usr/bin/bsd-mailx 50 manual mode
2 /usr/bin/mh/mhmail 25 manual mode
I expected /usr/bin/heirloom-mailx to be an alternative on this menu.
This is possibly the same bug as 858080, but I don't know enough
Debian jargon to know for sure.
Norman Ramsey
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.0
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: amd64
Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US.utf8),
LANGUAGE=C (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US.utf8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages heirloom-mailx depends on:
ii s-nail 14.8.16-1
heirloom-mailx recommends no packages.
heirloom-mailx suggests no packages.
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