Bug#1085848: /usr/bin/write: expects to be run with egid tty

Package: bsdextrautils Version: 2.40.2-9 Severity: normal File: /usr/bin/write Attempting to use write(1) in recent versions of bsdextrautils invariably (unless run by root) results in: write: effective gid does not match group of /dev/pts/NN Of course, now that the pre-1995 behaviour was re

Bug#1001901: bsdtar: incomplete lzip support

Package: libarchive-tools Version: 3.4.3-2+b1 Severity: minor File: /usr/bin/bsdtar Sometimes, apparently when dictionary size is too big, bsdtar says it doesn't recognize the archive format of lzipped tar: $ dd if=/dev/zero of=zero bs=1048576 count=129 status=none $ bsdtar cf zero.tar zero $

Bug#1001689: /usr/bin/free: misaligned columns in localized output

Package: procps Version: 2:3.3.17-5 Severity: minor File: /usr/bin/free In most of the languages available, the columns in output get misaligned when non-ASCII characters are used. This makes it very ugly and sometimes hard to read. Compare: $ for L in en de fr pl pt_BR sv uk vi zh_CN; do ec

Bug#999353: gkrelluim: broken rebuild

Package: gkrelluim Version: 0.3.1-7+b2 Severity: normal The latest NMU made gkrelluim completely unusbale. It seems to be missing all of its dependencies and doesn't load at all. The "Install Log" tab in the gkrellm's configuration window says: Error: /usr/lib/gkrellm2/plugins/gkrellui

Bug#991252: /usr/bin/clockdiff: Missing cap_sys_nice capability

Package: iputils-clockdiff Version: 3:20210202-1 Severity: normal File: /usr/bin/clockdiff At some point clockdiff started to check the result of nice(-16) and erroring out when it fails. This is silly on its own, but more importantly makes it unusable to anyone but root when installed the way