Control: severity -1 wishlist Control: retitle -1 util-linux: Please provide setpgid binary
On Tue, Sep 24, 2024 at 02:45:37PM -0400, Boyuan Yang wrote: > I noticed that you explicitly tried to remove the setpgid(1) binary > in > https://salsa.debian.org/debian/util-linux/-/commit/a3eb9caf97864a0ee93097160e57cfa36cff07ad > , > which I do not understand. I wanted to use it today and noticed that Debian > decided not to > provide it. > > Is there any reason behind such decision? The Salsa git commit showed no > information. We merely never started shipping the program. It was not removed. > If this utility is too trivial to provide, I thought we could > provide it under util-linux-extra package instead. If we ship it, we should have a clear idea what the usecase is, and into which binary package it should go. Generally I want to avoid putting new programs into binary packages that are Essential: yes. Fedora seems to put it into "util-linux", which is kinda their equivalent of our "util-linux-extra". Upstream doc: https://github.com/util-linux/util-linux/blob/master/sys-utils/setpgid.1.adoc Maybe you can write down your usecase, so this can be better understood. "Who wants to run this, when, and to achieve what?" Chris
