On Mon, Jun 22, 2026 at 10:30:32PM -0400, Nikolas Nyby wrote: > 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?
That default sort setting predates me, I believe; I'm not sure we want to break the default behavior though, but it is true that the expectation for new users might be the default Mutt behavior. If we keep the Debian behavior, for sure we should update the man page, I'll think about it, I'm probably more inclined to switch to the standard mutt behavior now.
