Sujet : Debian Jettisons More Old Unix Baggage
De : ldo (at) *nospam* nz.invalid (Lawrence D'Oliveiro)
Groupes : comp.os.linux.miscDate : 22. Nov 2024, 01:41:11
Autres entêtes
Organisation : A noiseless patient Spider
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Currently doing a Debian Unstable upgrade, and came across this
message
<
https://salsa.debian.org/debian/util-linux/-/blob/ad221625dc978a00c9ff5c9ee17b0667ade5f9c6/debian/NEWS>,
that the “mesg” and “write” tools provided by the util-linux package
will no longer be installed on Debian systems. Quote:
It is believed chatting between users is nowadays done using more
secure facilities.
On old-style Unix systems, they were used to send messages between
users seated at different terminals -- not a common case for *nix
systems these days.
Those programs are still in the upstream source repo, so you can
continue to build and install them from source, if you really want.
Debian Jettisons More Old Unix Baggage