Hello. Christoph Berg <[email protected]> wrote: |Package: heirloom-mailx |Version: 14.8.16-1 |Severity: normal | |Description-en: feature-rich BSD mail(1) -- transitional package | This dummy package is provided to provide a smooth upgrade path from | heirloom-mailx to s-nail. It only contains symlinks to the s-nail | binary and manpage. | |The package claims to be a "dummy" "transitional" package, but really |contains a compatibility symlink /usr/bin/heirloom-mailx. | |Please remove the "transitional" and "dummy" keywords. (At least it |doesn't say "it can safely be removed", but this is customly implied |by "transitional package".)
I am the developer of that program and it seems the Debian maintainer has quit. I was getting no response when i sent the updated recipes for the v14.9.* series which have arrived over two months ago. (And, to satisfy the foal(s): after two years of development, and with lots of improvements. And fixes.) He was doing Debian packages for multiple decades, i think. So. I was hoping with v14.9.* we become a mailx alternative again, too, because we are mailx, of course. Anyway, i have cloned the Debian tracker repository and updated that to v14.9.4, some things required polish and updates. 'Did not reinstantiate that mailx thing, because who am i to decide that. But i am not a Debian maintainer anyway so this likely will disappear in the void unless someone cares for it. Just drop me a mail. I am interested in bringing this forward. Thank you. --steffen | |Der Kragenbaer, The moon bear, |der holt sich munter he cheerfully and one by one |einen nach dem anderen runter wa.ks himself off |(By Robert Gernhardt)
