Today I learned (the hard way) that Fedora's mailx package (aka
Heirloom mailx) is ancient and buggy. Upstream has been dead for over
a decade and features documented in its man page don't work. The good
news is that Fedora (and RHEL and CentOS) already have s-nail, which
was forked from it ages ago and is still actively developed. They both
provide the POSIX mailx command, configurable via
/etc/alternatives/mailx, and support almost the same options/config
etc.
But 'dnf install mailx' gives you the bad version, and 'dnf search
mailx' doesn't show s-nail at all. So unless you happen to know s-nail
exists, or spend a while googling to see if Heirloom mailx is still
maintained, you'll never learn about the good one.
Is there any reason to keep both packages, when one is old and buggy
and the other is an improved version of the same thing?
Can we retire the mailx package, and then update s-nail with:
Provides: mailx = %{version}-%{release}
(this would work fine because mailx is at 12.5 and s-nail forked from
that and is now at 14.9, so upgrading would be straightforward)
Should I submit a self-contained change proposal to do this?
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