Hi, On Wed, 13 Oct 2021, David Bremner wrote: > > The which(1) program must not print any deprecation warnings. > > I remain to be convinced on this point. If I understand the issue > correctly the problem is with autopkgtests failing because they were not > expecting output on stderr. I don't think people are really entitled to > expect which(1) to never print to stderr. Even when debian-policy > recommended 'which' it apparently recommended redirecting stderr. > > I also don't see failures of autopkgtests as directly impacting users in > the same way a failure to build or a failure to install does.
There have been other reports of failures due to the message on stderr, autopkgtest is not the only one (wookey mentionned a build failure). In any case, a message saying that which is deprecated when in fact `which` will stay around (but maintained in another packages) is not helpful. > I understand that people find the message annoying, and perhaps not that > useful, but I don't think that rises the level justifying overriding a > maintainer. I think it does. Cheers, -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ Raphaël Hertzog <hert...@debian.org> ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋ The Debian Handbook: https://debian-handbook.info/get/ ⠈⠳⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀ Debian Long Term Support: https://deb.li/LTS
