Bug#909401: mailutils: don't know what 2047 is

[Poon, Dara]

The example command in the GNU mailutils documentation 
(http://mailutils.org/manual/html_node/mailutils-2047.html) fails, printing 
"mailutils: don't know what 2047 is" as the error message.  Running it with 
strace shows the root cause:

stat("/usr/lib/mailutils/mailutils/mailutils-2047", 0x7ffd569d7770) = -1 ENOENT 
(No such file or directory)


The build process for mailutils-3.4 actually produces an executable file 
mu/libexec/.libs/mailutils-flt2047, but it is never packaged into any .deb.  If 
you build mailutils-3.4 using dpkg-buildpackage, then manually install that 
binary:

# mkdir -p /usr/lib/mailutils/mailutils
# cp ./mu/libexec/.libs/mailutils-flt2047 /usr/lib/mailutils/mailutils/


… then you would be able to run `mailutils flt2047`.  (Note that the command is 
named "flt2047", in contrast to the documentation, which calls it "2047".  
That's an upstream bug.)

Bug#909401: mailutils: don't know what 2047 is

[積丹尼 Dan Jacobson]

Package: mailutils
Version: 1:3.4-1+b1
Severity: wishlist

I read (info "(mailutils) mailutils 2047")
but then upon trial:
$ mailutils 2047 'Keld J/orn Simonsen '
mailutils: don't know what 2047 is

In fact most of the items on (info "(mailutils) mailutils") are broken
that way too.

Maybe they should say
mailutils: don't know what ... is, did you forget to install the ... package?