Bug#1087642: bsdutils: wall does not work at all

[Chris Hofstaedtler]

Control: affects -1 - systemd-sysv

* Vincent Lefevre <vincent at vinc17.net> [241119 16:21]:
> Control: severity -1 important

Don't play severity ping-pong with maintainers.

> Control: affects -1 systemd-sysv
> 
> On 2024-11-16 17:02:23 +0100, Chris Hofstaedtler wrote:
> > On Sat, Nov 16, 2024 at 04:37:03PM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> > > Package: bsdutils
> > > Justification: renders package unusable
> > 
> > It really doesn't.
> 
> Not completely, but as the shutdown command from systemd-sysv uses
> "wall" to warn users before a shutdown, this can yield data loss.
> So this is really a major bug.

No, it really doesn't. systemd has its own implementation to write
shutdown notifications, as can be seen here:
https://sources.debian.org/src/systemd/257~rc2-3/src/shared/wall.c/