Re: mailutils in stretch

[Dave Sherohman <dave@sherohman.org>]

On Fri, Jul 07, 2017 at 04:39:48PM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote:
> Argh, I am sorry.  I meant to say just the opposite by leaving out the
> extra "not", In fact, various packages have been demoted from Priority
> standard or important to optional in recent years.  This includes the
> venerable "ed" text editor for instance, and also any package providing
> /usr/bin/mail.  Apparently the reason is that they pull in an MTA which
> is also no longer included by default.  Which seems sensible to me BTW.

It isn't?  On one of the new stretch machines referenced in my original
post, I get:

~$ dpkg -s exim4 | grep Priority
Priority: standard

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Dave Sherohman