>>As this is not a bug I'll be bold and close the bug report. > > Quite so. It'd be nice if there as some way to prevent the system from > assigning a > bug number. I.e., some kind of code you could put in your email to say "This > is not > a bug; it is just meta".
I think coreut...@gnu.org would be fine. That list is for "general discussion". > Or if there was a "help-coreutils" list to which this sort of thing could be > posted. > (Note that some of the other lists I follow have both bug- and help- versions) It probably does make sense to create a "help-" one. But coreut...@gnu.org does not get a ton of traffic, so I don't think anyone there would mind. >>But yes, pr is obsolete. Just like 'shred' is obsolete. > > Just out of curiosity, why is shred obsolete? Not speaking for Paul, as he may have a different reason for thinking this... But there more purpose-built applications nowadays to securely remove data from a drive. For example BleachBit, which Americans might know of because of a political controversy associated with it [1]. Regardless, most governments and and some cooperations will require degaussing at the minimum [2]. And likely require more than that, i.e. physically breaking the drive. Collin [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BleachBit [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_remanence#Degaussing
