On Wed, Mar 17, 2021 at 12:21:24PM -0700, Jonathan Nieder wrote: >... > a. We could add a NEWS.Debian entry to help people see that the path > changed and recommend using the $(git --exec-path) based incantation
And do a transition with Breaks against the non-migrated versions of packages that rely on the current path. Sounds doable for bookworm, but would also make git in bullseye-backports harder to use for users of broken packages or require backports also of these packages. > b. We could move $(git --exec-path) back to /usr/lib/git-core. After > all, while the FHS _allows_ libexec nowadays, it does not require > it. >... If this was only done to please lintian, I would vote for that option. > Thanks, > Jonathan cu Adrian
