Package: debian-policy Version: 3.5.2.0 Severity: normal Hi
In the discussion about changing our default mailbox location it became clear that there are some packages that don't use $MAIL at all. This is seriously broken behaviour, and can make it very hard to use alternative mailbox setups. Reading up about this in the policy, I noticed that it states in section 12.6, paragraph 2: # The mail spool is /var/spool/mail and the interface to send a mail message # is /usr/sbin/sendmail (as per the FHS). The mail spool is part of the base # system and not part of the MTA package. This sounds af it was allways /var/spool/mail, and considering $MAIL was not really necessery. I propose that this be changed to: # The mail spool is $MAIL with a fallback to /var/spool/mail. The interface to # send a mail message is /usr/sbin/sendmail (as per the FHS). The mail spool is # part of the base system and not part of the MTA package. ciao, 2ri
