[bug-mailutils] address@hidden: Bug#205613: Gratuitous finger-macro incompatibility in mail/mailx]

[Jordi Mallach]

Hello,

I got the attached bug report in the Debian BTS.
I think the claim is valid, I also find a bit strange the order of
prompting for Cc:.

Jordi
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> Bug#205613: Gratuitous finger-macro incompatibility in mail/mailx
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> Date: 
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> Fri, 15 Aug 2003 13:50:19 -0400
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> User-agent: 
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> Mutt/1.5.4i
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> Package: mailutils
> Version: 20030809-2
> Severity: normal
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> With 'mail' from the mailx package:
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> mizar:[~] mail address@hidden
> Subject: test 
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> message body
> .
> Cc: 
> there:[~] mail address@hidden
> Cc: Subject: (Interrupt -- one more to kill letter)
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> With 'mail' from the mailutils package:
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> there:[~] mail address@hidden
> Cc: 
> Subject: test
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> message body
> .
> .
> .
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> there:[~] mail address@hidden
> Cc: Subject: (Interrupt -- one more to kill letter)
> zsh: exit 1     mail address@hidden
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> Differences:
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> 1. Prompts for Cc before Subject
> 2. Prompts for Cc before message
> 3. Does not end message with '.' on a line by itself (only EOF)
> 4. Interrupt at first prompt goes to second prompt, which must then be
>    interrupted twice in order to exit (mailx exits after two interrupts)
> 5. Exits nonzero when interrupted, mailx exits zero
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> Also, unrelated (clone if you think it's worth it):
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> # mailx
> mizar:[~] man -w mail
> /usr/share/man/man1/mail.1.gz
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> # mailutils
> there:[~] man -w mail
> No manual entry for mail
> See 'man 7 undocumented' for help when manual pages are not available.
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> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: testing/unstable
> Architecture: i386
> Kernel: Linux there 2.6.0-test1 #16 SMP Mon Jul 14 16:39:13 EDT 2003 i686
> Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US)
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> Versions of packages mailutils depends on:
> ii  libc6         2.3.2-2                    GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
> ii  libcomerr2    1.34+1.35-WIP-2003.08.01-1 The Common Error Description libra
> ii  libgcrypt1    1.1.12-3                   LGPL Crypto library - runtime libr
> ii  libgdbm3      1.8.3-1                    GNU dbm database routines (runtime
> ii  libgnutls7    0.8.9-2                    GNU TLS library - runtime library
> ii  libgsasl1     0.0.6-1                    GNU SASL library
> ii  libguile9     1:1.4-24                   libraries for Guile1.4 (guile, gui
> ii  libidn9       0.1.14-2                   GNU libidn library, implementation
> ii  libkrb53      1.3-2                      MIT Kerberos runtime libraries
> ii  libltdl3      1.5-1                      A system independent dlopen wrappe
> ii  libmailutils0 20030809-2                 GNU Mail abstraction library
> ii  libmysqlclien 3.23.56-2                  LGPL-licensed client library for M
> ii  libncurses5   5.3.20030719-1             Shared libraries for terminal hand
> ii  libpam0g      0.76-13                    Pluggable Authentication Modules l
> ii  libreadline4  4.3-5                      GNU readline and history libraries
> ii  libtasn1-0    0.1.2-1                    Manage ASN.1 structures (runtime)
> ii  zlib1g        1:1.1.4-14                 compression library - runtime
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> -- no debconf information
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> -- 
>  - mdz
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