On Mon, Oct 13, 2025 at 10:24:53AM +0200, Helmut Grohne wrote:
> apcupsd fails to build from source in unstable, because it does not find 
> the tool "wall". Reproducible builds have a log reproducing this at
> https://tests.reproducible-builds.org/debian/rbuild/unstable/amd64/apcupsd_3.14.14-5.rbuild.log.gz
> 
> | configure: WARNING: mail program not found !
> | checking for wall... no
> | configure: error: Missing required tool; need any one of: wall
> |     tail -v -n \+0 config.log
> | ==> config.log <==
> 
> I guess that Chris continued to trim util-linux and moved wall.

wall is now in bsdutils (not Essential), installed as /usr/bin/wall.

> An 
> additional build dependency and maybe also runtime dependency likely is 
> needed here.

However, wall is not a reliable way of informing anyone anymore.

acupsd should probably find another way of informing users (after 
fixing the FTBFS at hand).

Chris

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