Currently doing a Debian Unstable upgrade, and came across this
message <
https://salsa.debian.org/debian/util-linux/-/blob/ad221625dc978a00c9ff5c9ee17b0667ade5f9c6/debian/NEWS>,
that the “mesg” and “write” tools provided by the util-linux package will no longer be installed on Debian systems. Quote:
It is believed chatting between users is nowadays done using more
secure facilities.
On old-style Unix systems, they were used to send messages between
users seated at different terminals -- not a common case for *nix
systems these days.
Those programs are still in the upstream source repo, so you can
continue to build and install them from source, if you really want.
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