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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)
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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.