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

[Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl>]

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.

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

Mike.
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