Hi наб,

Am Fri, Mar 07, 2025 at 04:17:26PM +0100 schrieb наб:
> Ideally we could provide buffer with mbuffer, but this may require a wrapper;
> just glancing at the manuals I see a different default size and no -S;
> this could just be as simple as a getopt(1) loop however.

This would be in an ideal world where skilled free software developers
have an infinite amount of spare time. ;-)
 
> ...actually mbuffer's default seems to be -S $blocksize
> (with a different output format, which is very busy);
> there's -q to disable it, but no option to change the logged increments.
> 
> And there's no way AFAICT to disable config file loading.
> 
> So no dice without significant mbuffer patching.

What about: Just doing an NMU for buffer in Debian/ team and adding
to NEWS.Debian:

  This package will be removed after Trixi release.
  Please switch to mbuffer.

Kind regards
     Andreas.

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