On Fri, Dec 8, 2023 at 12:34 PM Jonathan Wakely
<jwakely@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> 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?
Yes, please!
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