[Pkg-mutt-maintainers] Bug#883799: mutt: update-alternatives for mutt family

[Richard Hartmann]

Package: mutt
Severity: normal

Now that the mutt package is back to an upstream version and a neomutt
package exists, I keep seeing installations of people break left and
right.

While the case could be made that neomutt and mutt are different, all
neomutt users I know consider neomutt the now-canonical version of mutt.

Long story short, would you be willing to have neomutt linked as mutt
via update-alternatives?


Richard


-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
  APT prefers testing-debug
  APT policy: (500, 'testing-debug'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.13.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US:en (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages mutt depends on:
ii  libassuan0        2.4.4-1
ii  libc6             2.25-2
ii  libcomerr2        1.43.7-1
ii  libgnutls30       3.5.16-1
ii  libgpg-error0     1.27-5
ii  libgpgme11        1.9.0-6
ii  libgssapi-krb5-2  1.15.2-2
ii  libidn11          1.33-2
ii  libk5crypto3      1.15.2-2
ii  libkrb5-3         1.15.2-2
ii  libncursesw5      6.0+20170902-1
ii  libsasl2-2        2.1.27~101-g0780600+dfsg-3
ii  libtinfo5         6.0+20170902-1
ii  libtokyocabinet9  1.4.48-11+b1

Versions of packages mutt recommends:
ii  libsasl2-modules  2.1.27~101-g0780600+dfsg-3
ii  locales           2.25-2
ii  mime-support      3.60

Versions of packages mutt suggests:
ii  aspell                                     0.60.7~20110707-4
ii  ca-certificates                            20170717
ii  exim4-daemon-light [mail-transport-agent]  4.89-13
ii  gnupg                                      2.2.2-1
ii  ispell                                     3.4.00-6
pn  mixmaster                                  <none>
ii  openssl                                    1.1.0g-2
pn  urlview                                    <none>