Logcheck devel - Jun 2008 - Bug#488102: logcheck: please revert bsd-mailx dependency

Package: logcheck
Version: 1.2.65
Severity: normal

Please revert the bsd-mailx dependency that was introduced with logcheck
1.2.65. It breaks the use of GNU mailutils together with logcheck.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.25.9-orbiter.x86-64.1 (PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages logcheck depends on:
ii  adduser                       3.108      add and remove users and groups
pn  bsd-mailx                     <none>     (no description available)
ii  cron                          3.0pl1-104 management of regular background p
ii  exim4                         4.69-5     meta-package to ease Exim MTA (v4)
ii  exim4-daemon-heavy [mail-tran 4.69-5+b1  Exim MTA (v4) daemon with extended
ii  lockfile-progs                0.1.11-0.1 Programs for locking and unlocking
ii  logtail                       1.2.65     Print log file lines that have not
ii  syslog-ng [system-log-daemon] 2.0.9-1    Next generation logging daemon

Versions of packages logcheck recommends:
ii  logcheck-database             1.2.65     database of system log rules for t

-- debconf information:
* logcheck/noroot:
  logcheck/changes:
* logcheck/install-note:

tags 488102 moreinfo
thanks

also sprach Piotr Kaczuba <pepe at attika.ath.cx> [2008.06.26.1402
+0200]:
> Please revert the bsd-mailx dependency that was introduced with logcheck
> 1.2.65. It breaks the use of GNU mailutils together with logcheck.
Can you please elaborate?
How does it break mailutils?

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and subject line Bug#488102: fixed in logcheck 1.2.66
has caused the Debian Bug report #488102,
regarding logcheck: please revert bsd-mailx dependency
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