Package: mutt
Version: 2.3.2-1
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
The muttrc man page documents the default value for the "sort" setting
as "date". Debian's custom Muttrc.patch overrides this to set
sort=threads.
If we are overriding this default, maybe the man page could be updated
as well to reflect that.
But I'm not sure if there is a good reason to override this default in
the first place. What do you think about removing this debian-specific
set sort=threads override?
-- Package-specific info:
Mutt 2.3.2 (2026-04-26)
Copyright (C) 1996-2026 Michael R. Elkins and others.
Mutt comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details type `mutt -vv'.
Mutt is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
under certain conditions; type `mutt -vv' for details.
System: Linux 7.0.10+deb14-amd64 (x86_64)
ncurses: ncurses 6.6.20251231 (compiled with 6.6)
libidn2: 2.3.8 (compiled with 2.3.8)
hcache backend: tokyocabinet 1.4.48
Compiler:
Using built-in specs.
COLLECT_GCC=x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc
COLLECT_LTO_WRAPPER=/usr/libexec/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/15/lto-wrapper
OFFLOAD_TARGET_NAMES=nvptx-none:amdgcn-amdhsa
OFFLOAD_TARGET_DEFAULT=1
Target: x86_64-linux-gnu
Configured with: ../src/configure -v --with-pkgversion='Debian 15.2.0-17'
--with-bugurl=file:///usr/share/doc/gcc-15/README.Bugs
--enable-languages=c,ada,c++,go,d,fortran,objc,obj-c++,m2,rust,cobol,algol68
--prefix=/usr --with-gcc-major-version-only --program-suffix=-15
--program-prefix=x86_64-linux-gnu- --enable-shared --enable-linker-build-id
--libexecdir=/usr/libexec --without-included-gettext --enable-threads=posix
--libdir=/usr/lib --enable-nls --enable-bootstrap --enable-clocale=gnu
--enable-libstdcxx-debug --enable-libstdcxx-time=yes
--with-default-libstdcxx-abi=new --enable-libstdcxx-backtrace
--enable-gnu-unique-object --disable-vtable-verify --enable-plugin
--enable-default-pie --with-system-zlib --enable-libphobos-checking=release
--with-target-system-zlib=auto --enable-objc-gc=auto --enable-multiarch
--disable-werror --enable-cet --with-arch-32=i686 --with-abi=m64
--with-multilib-list=m32,m64,mx32 --enable-multilib --with-tune=generic
--enable-offload-targets=nvptx-none=/build/reproducible-path/gcc-15-15.2.0/debian/tmp-nvptx/usr,amdgcn-amdhsa=/build/reproducible-path/gcc-15-15.2.0/debian/tmp-gcn/usr
--enable-offload-defaulted --without-cuda-driver --enable-checking=release
--build=x86_64-linux-gnu --host=x86_64-linux-gnu --target=x86_64-linux-gnu
--with-build-config=bootstrap-lto-lean --enable-link-serialization=3
Thread model: posix
Supported LTO compression algorithms: zlib zstd
gcc version 15.2.0 (Debian 15.2.0-17)
Configure options: --build=x86_64-linux-gnu --prefix=/usr
'--includedir=${prefix}/include' '--mandir=${prefix}/share/man'
'--infodir=${prefix}/share/info' --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var
--disable-option-checking --disable-silent-rules
'--libdir=${prefix}/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu' --runstatedir=/run
--disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
--with-mailpath=/var/mail --enable-compressed --enable-debug --enable-fcntl
--enable-hcache --enable-gpgme --enable-imap --enable-smtp --enable-pop
--enable-sidebar --enable-dotlock --enable-autocrypt --disable-fmemopen
--with-curses --with-gnutls --with-gss --with-idn2 --with-mixmaster
--with-gsasl --with-sqlite3 --without-gdbm --without-bdb --without-qdbm
--with-tokyocabinet build_alias=x86_64-linux-gnu CC=x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc
'CFLAGS=-g -O2 -Werror=implicit-function-declaration
-ffile-prefix-map=/build/reproducible-path/mutt-2.3.2=.
-fstack-protector-strong -fstack-clash-protection -Wformat
-Werror=format-security -fcf-protection' 'LDFLAGS=-Wl,-z,relro -Wl,-z,now'
'CPPFLAGS=-Wdate-time -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2'
Compilation CFLAGS: -Wall -pedantic -Wno-long-long -g -O2
-Werror=implicit-function-declaration
-ffile-prefix-map=/build/reproducible-path/mutt-2.3.2=.
-fstack-protector-strong -fstack-clash-protection -Wformat
-Werror=format-security -fcf-protection
Compile options:
-DOMAIN
+DEBUG
-HOMESPOOL +USE_SETGID +USE_DOTLOCK +DL_STANDALONE +USE_FCNTL -USE_FLOCK
+USE_POP +USE_IMAP +USE_SMTP
-USE_SSL_OPENSSL +USE_SSL_GNUTLS -USE_SASL +USE_GSASL +USE_GSS
+HAVE_GETADDRINFO
+HAVE_REGCOMP -USE_GNU_REGEX
+HAVE_COLOR +HAVE_START_COLOR +HAVE_TYPEAHEAD +HAVE_BKGDSET
+HAVE_CURS_SET +HAVE_META +HAVE_RESIZETERM +HAVE_FUTIMENS
+CRYPT_BACKEND_CLASSIC_PGP +CRYPT_BACKEND_CLASSIC_SMIME +CRYPT_BACKEND_GPGME
-EXACT_ADDRESS -SUN_ATTACHMENT
+ENABLE_NLS -LOCALES_HACK +HAVE_WC_FUNCS +HAVE_LANGINFO_CODESET
+HAVE_LANGINFO_YESEXPR
+HAVE_ICONV -ICONV_NONTRANS -HAVE_LIBIDN +HAVE_LIBIDN2 +HAVE_GETSID
+USE_HCACHE
+USE_SIDEBAR +USE_COMPRESSED +USE_INOTIFY
-ISPELL
SENDMAIL="/usr/sbin/sendmail"
MAILPATH="/var/mail"
PKGDATADIR="/usr/share/mutt"
SYSCONFDIR="/etc"
EXECSHELL="/bin/sh"
MIXMASTER="mixmaster"
To contact the developers, please mail to <[email protected]>.
To report a bug, please contact the Mutt maintainers via gitlab:
https://gitlab.com/muttmua/mutt/issues
-- System Information:
Debian Release: forky/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 7.0.10+deb14-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages mutt depends on:
ii libc6 2.42-16
ii libgnutls30t64 3.8.13-1
ii libgpg-error0 1.59-4
ii libgpgme45 2.1.0-2
ii libgsasl18 2.2.4-1
ii libgssapi-krb5-2 1.22.1-2.1
ii libidn2-0 2.3.8-5
ii libncursesw6 6.6+20251231-1+b1
ii libsqlite3-0 3.46.1-9+b1
ii libtinfo6 6.6+20251231-1+b1
ii libtokyocabinet9t64 1.4.48-15.1+b1
ii zlib1g 1:1.3.dfsg+really1.3.2-3
Versions of packages mutt recommends:
ii locales 2.42-16
ii mailcap 3.77
ii sensible-utils 0.0.26
Versions of packages mutt suggests:
ii ca-certificates 20260601
ii gnupg 2.4.9-4
ii ispell 3.4.06-1.1
ii msmtp-mta [mail-transport-agent] 1.8.32-1
ii openssl 3.6.3-1
pn urlview <none>
Versions of packages mutt is related to:
ii mutt 2.3.2-1
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