On Mon, Jun 22, 2020 at 19:04:49 +0200, Michael Meskes wrote:

> > I think it's probably best at this point to have bsdmainutils depend
> > on
> > bsdextrautils.  That gets rid of the breakage in the place where it
> > originated, and doesn't leave things without a transition path.
> 
> I beg to disagree, there is a transition plan, namely depending on the
> right package. Things change, that's what unstable is for. Depending on
> bsdmainutils to get bsdextrautils does not sound right to me.
> 
Depending on bsdmainutils to get col et al seems entirely right, it's
been right forever, there doesn't seem to be a reason to break that both
for dependent packages and for end users.  Especially not without
notice.

Cheers,
Julien

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