Hi Andreas,
On Wed, Mar 05, 2025 at 10:44:45AM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote:
> Inside the Tiny Tasks Matrix channel наб asked:
> "isn't mbuffer the same as buffer but better?"
Ah right, I stumbled across this a long time ago and forgot about it again
:-(
> According to your insight into buffer would you consider this some
> sensible equivalent? If so I'd volunteer to file some RoQA bug to ask
> ftpmaster for removal of buffer.
I've not actually tested it yet, but according to its description, it should
be a suitable replacement and it actually shuold be vastly superior:
DESCRIPTION:
mbuffer is a replacement for buffer with additional functionality:
[...]
So I'm all for simply dropping buffer and recommending mbuffer instead (is
that important enough for the "Noteworthy obsolete packages" section in the
release notes?).
Thanks,
Martin
