Bug#2602: bsdutils contains files that sysvinit does as well

[Austin Donnelly <and1000@cam.ac.uk>]

On Thu, 28 Mar 1996, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:

> You (Andrew Howell) wrote:
> > Package: bsdutils
> > Version: 2.0-2
> >
> > Both of this package and sysvinit-2.59-2 contain mesg and mesg.1
> > I'm not entirely sure which package should drop these files, but I think
> > it probably should be bsdutils that does drop them.
>
> I added it to sysvinit (actually it has always been part of it, but wasn't
> installed by default) because the bsd one has a problem: it writes the
> output to stderr which is confusing in scripts. This was requested on
> debian-devel some time ago but I forgot to tell the bsdutils maintainer.
>
> Alternatively if the BSD one has been fixed, mesg could be taken out of
> sysvinit again.

The only reason for the problem is that I haven't had time to release
a new bsdutils without mesg.

The sysvinit mesg is _far_ superior to the BSD one. Have you actually
read any of the BSD code?  It's absolutely vile: it's a miracle any of
it works!

> All this fuss about a program which exists of only 5 lines of C ;)

:)

I plan to release a new bsdutils, split into:

  bsdbaseutils
  bsdutils

The bsdbase utils will contain only the stuff needed for the base discs.

I'll close this bug report when I release the next bsdutils.

Austin