On Thu, Nov 21, 2024 at 10:28:41PM +0100, Santiago Vila wrote: > El 21/11/24 a las 22:01, Chris Hofstaedtler escribió: > > util-linux recently stopped installing mesg(1). > > Does this mean that mesg will not exist at all, or maybe > it is in another package?
It will not exist at all. > In the first case: Are we in time to make "mesg" a no-op > command which emits a warning message for trixie? > > Or maybe this would not even make sense? Since base-files > redirects stderr to /dev/null, nobody would ever > see the warning, at least when invoked from base-files. Indeed. I'm not convinced having a stub mesg emitting a warning is useful. > > Could you see to updating bash-files' dot.profile, which AFAICT is > > the template for /root/.profile? > > Ok, will do. Thanks! > > Will installs that have not changed /root/.profile automatically get > > the updated file, or do they need to manually change it? > > If they didn't change the default, it will be updated to the new default. > There is already a mechanism in place for that, based on the > file /usr/share/base-files/dot.profile.md5sums. Great, then I hope most installs will be updated automatically. Chris
