Daniel Pocock writes: Hi,
> > I've reopened this bug because of two things: > > a) the priority of bsd-mailx was lowered[1] to optional in 2016 (Robert, > can you comment on that?) The priority was actually lowered by ftpmasters in the override file (see [1]), most probably because bsd-mailx "pulls in an MTA which is also no longer included by default [in standard installation]" [2]. The change in bsd-mailx in fact changed nothing, as it was only to synchronize the value of the field in the package with the override. [1] https://wiki.debian.org/FtpMaster/Override [2] https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2017/07/msg00459.html > > b) consequently, mailutils is now being installed by default in stretch > and it doesn't respect /etc/mailname - #253513[2] exim4-base recommends pure virtual mailx package, and apt somehow chooses mailutils to satisfy that recommendation. I think this might be a kind of a random choice, because IMHO nothing in the dependencies system seems to tell apt which package should it choose. Honestly I cannot see any way to fix this choice at the bsd-mailx package side. Regards, robert
