#1110896 RM: nwall -- RoQA; obsolete, security issue, utmp-less issue

#1110896#5
Date:
2025-08-12 07:23:55 UTC
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Hi,

please remove nwall. It's orphaned, has the same old problem with
writing to other terminals that wall did (which we removed), and
anyway doesn't work on utmp-less systems (like trixie and beyond).

It did not ship with trixie.

Thanks,
Chris

#1110896#12
Date:
2025-08-13 09:34:39 UTC
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To:
We believe that the bug you reported is now fixed; the following
package(s) have been removed from unstable:

     nwall | 1.32+debian-10 | source, amd64, arm64, armel, armhf, i386, mips64el, ppc64el, riscv64, s390x
------------------- Reason ------------------- RoQA; obsolete, security issue, utmp-less issue ---------------------------------------------- Note that the package(s) have simply been removed from the tag database and may (or may not) still be in the pool; this is not a bug. The package(s) will be physically removed automatically when no suite references them (and in the case of source, when no binary references it). Please also remember that the changes have been done on the master archive and will not propagate to any mirrors until the next dinstall run at the earliest. Packages are usually not removed from testing by hand. Testing tracks unstable and will automatically remove packages which were removed from unstable when removing them from testing causes no dependency problems. The release team can force a removal from testing if it is really needed, please contact them if this should be the case. We try to close bugs which have been reported against this package automatically. But please check all old bugs, if they were closed correctly or should have been re-assigned to another package. Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you have further comments please address them to 1110896@bugs.debian.org. The full log for this bug can be viewed at https://bugs.debian.org/1110896 This message was generated automatically; if you believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive administrators by mailing ftpmaster@ftp-master.debian.org. Debian distribution maintenance software pp. Thorsten Alteholz (the ftpmaster behind the curtain)