Bug#488214: make mailx a registered virtual package name

[Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>]

"Giacomo A. Catenazzi" <cate@debian.org> writes:

> Note: I was replying to your "out of curiosity".

> To answer the original question:
> I agree to make "mailx" a virtual package.
> And I agree to specify that the mailx provides the
> POSIX interfaces of mailx

Here's an updated patch.

diff --git a/virtual-package-names-list.txt b/virtual-package-names-list.txt
index 9ba66e5..2308d39 100644
--- a/virtual-package-names-list.txt
+++ b/virtual-package-names-list.txt
@@ -123,6 +123,8 @@ News and Mail
  imap-server             an IMAP mail server
  mail-reader             a mail user agent (e.g. Pine, Elm, mailx, &c)
  mail-transport-agent    a mail transport agent (e.g. Smail, Sendmail, &c)
+ mailx                   a /usr/bin/mailx binary that provides at least
+                         the POSIX mailx interface (*)
  news-reader             a news reader (e.g. trn, tin, &c)
  news-transport-system   a local news system (e.g. INN, C News or B News)
  pgp                     a version of PGP (International or US)

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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>