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

[Russ Allbery]

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.)

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Russ Allbery (rra at debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>