Control: forwarded -1 https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=31737 Control: tags -1 + patch
On 2018-12-25 19:43 +0100, Ronan KERYELL wrote: > Package: emacs-gtk > Version: 1:26.1+1-2 > Severity: normal > > Dear Maintainer, > > Emacs 26.1 just landed into Debian/unstable and it breaks GNUS reading > local e-mail with the '(file)' method because the movemail configuration > changed in 26.1 as explained in the NEWS: > >> ** The new option 'configure --with-mailutils' causes Emacs to rely on >> GNU Mailutils to retrieve email. It is recommended, and is the >> default if GNU Mailutils is installed > > This problem seems to have been already discussed last June in > http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/88065 > but it seems difficult to access this information right now in Gmane. > > Since emacs-bin-common depends already on mailutils, configure Emacs > with > 'configure --with-mailutils' > should probably fix the problem. It does not, since Emacs is already configured that way. In Emacs 26.2, the issue will be fixed by the patch at[1] which should probably be cherry-picked for the Debian package. Cheers, Sven 1. https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/?h=emacs-26&id=63f1dc4f7c33cc7cc738dbfae3d8192ae448b2f6
