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

[Antonio Radici]

On Thu, Dec 07, 2017 at 05:51:18PM +0100, Richard Hartmann wrote:
> 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?
> 
> 
We have a bug on the neomutt side for the same problem. I'm planning to offer
both and set up update-alternatives.