Bug#349142: xterm: Warning "mesg: error: tty device is not owned by group `tty'"

[Roman Bertle <bertle@kph.tuwien.ac.at>]

Package: xterm
Version: 208-3.1
Severity: minor

Hello,

since my last system upgrade, if I open a xterm a warning message is written:

mesg: error: tty device is not owned by group `tty'

Regards, Roman

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.15-1-686
Locale: LANG=de_AT.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_AT.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages xterm depends on:
ii  libc6                     2.3.5-12       GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libfontconfig1            2.3.2-1.1      generic font configuration library
ii  libfreetype6              2.1.10-1       FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii  libice6                   6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libncurses5               5.5-1          Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  libsm6                    6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 X Window System Session Management
ii  libx11-6                  6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 X Window System protocol client li
ii  libxaw8                   6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 X Athena widget set library
ii  libxext6                  6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 X Window System miscellaneous exte
ii  libxft2                   2.1.7-1        FreeType-based font drawing librar
ii  libxmu6                   6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 X Window System miscellaneous util
ii  libxrender1               1:0.9.0.2-1    X Rendering Extension client libra
ii  libxt6                    6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 X Toolkit Intrinsics
ii  xlibs-data                6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 X Window System client data
ii  zlib1g                    1:1.2.3-9      compression library - runtime

Versions of packages xterm recommends:
ii  xutils                    6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 X Window System utility programs

-- debconf information:
  xterm/clobber_xresource_file: true
  xterm/xterm_needs_devpts: