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Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder2.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Debian Jettisons More Old Unix Baggage Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2024 00:41:11 -0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 15 Message-ID: <vhojv7$s7eq$1@dont-email.me> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2024 01:41:12 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="d0640d653b3828f8761808e02c741927"; logging-data="925146"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX193UwyAPC9i917Xupk3eSde" User-Agent: Pan/0.160 (Toresk; ) Cancel-Lock: sha1:2ERHGROHmyMML8BKXklhsTsLj6E= Bytes: 1565 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.