Subject: Bug#3820: trn should be marked as news-reader

From: Andreas Jellinghaus <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 16 Jul 1996 18:57:20 +0200

package: trn
version: ? (of debian-1.1.1)

trn should be marked as news.reader, so inn will b e satisfied 
(inn recomends to install a news-reader. but only slrn is marked as
news-reader, trn and tin are not.)

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From: "Brian C. White" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 17 Jul 1996 12:33:02 -0400

> news-reader, trn and tin are not.)

Is there a problem with multiple packages providing the same virtual
package?  Netscape should provide news-reader and mail-reader, too.

                                        Brian
                               ( [email-masked] )

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From: [email-masked] (Emilio Lopes)
Date: Thu, 18 Jul 96 16:13 EST

>>>>> "BCW" == Brian C White <[email-masked]> wrote:

BCW> Is there a problem with multiple packages providing the same
BCW> virtual package?  Netscape should provide news-reader and
BCW> mail-reader, too.

So does emacs, that does not currently provides news-reader:

   Package: emacs
   Status: install ok installed
   Priority: standard
   Section: editors
   Maintainer: Mark Eichin <[email-masked]>
   Source: emacs
   Version: 19.31-2
   Provides: info-browser, mail-reader
   Depends: libc5, elf-x11r6lib, ncurses3.0
   Suggests: emacs-el
   Description: The GNU Emacs editor.
    GNU Emacs is the extensible self-documenting text editor.

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From: [email-masked] (Erick Branderhorst)
Date: Fri, 19 Jul 1996 10:06:17 +0100

> So does emacs, that does not currently provides news-reader:

Are mail-reader and news-reader appropriate names? Aren't they
being used for sending mail and news as well?  Can't come up with
an appropriate alternative.

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From: Jon Rabone <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 19 Jul 1996 12:28:17 +0100 (BST)

Firstly. I've closed bug 3820 as trn3.6-6 fixed this about a month ago. 

> an appropriate alternative.

We could have news-agent and mail-agent, in the spirit of MTA and MUA - 
bear in mind that I can't easily upload a new version of trn at the 
moment, I'm on restricted net access...

Jon.

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From: Ian Jackson <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 19 Jul 96 22:12 BST

> package?  Netscape should provide news-reader and mail-reader, too.

No problem.  Feel free to report this as a bug.

Ian.

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From: Ian Jackson <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 19 Jul 96 22:44 BST

> an appropriate alternative.

Yes, they are being used for sending mail and news as well.

This is implicit and shouldn't be changed.

Ian.