On Mon, Oct 13, 2025 at 10:24:53AM +0200, Helmut Grohne wrote: > apcupsd fails to build from source in unstable, because it does not find > the tool "wall". Reproducible builds have a log reproducing this at > https://tests.reproducible-builds.org/debian/rbuild/unstable/amd64/apcupsd_3.14.14-5.rbuild.log.gz > > | configure: WARNING: mail program not found ! > | checking for wall... no > | configure: error: Missing required tool; need any one of: wall > | tail -v -n \+0 config.log > | ==> config.log <== > > I guess that Chris continued to trim util-linux and moved wall.
wall is now in bsdutils (not Essential), installed as /usr/bin/wall. > An > additional build dependency and maybe also runtime dependency likely is > needed here. However, wall is not a reliable way of informing anyone anymore. acupsd should probably find another way of informing users (after fixing the FTBFS at hand). Chris
