On Mon, 2020-06-22 at 20:57 +0200, Julien Cristau wrote: > On Mon, Jun 22, 2020 at 19:46:21 +0200, Michael Meskes wrote: > > > > 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. > > > > There is no point arguing against your "do not change anything" > > attitude. > > > I'm not saying don't change anything, I'm saying don't break stuff > for > users for no reason.
You are saying the reason is "it's been right forever". The reason for this move is moving from the old and heavily patched BSD source to the more up-to-date GNU version. Michael -- Michael Meskes Michael at Fam-Meskes dot De, Michael at Meskes dot (De|Com|Net|Org) Meskes at (Debian|Postgresql) dot Org Jabber: michael at xmpp dot meskes dot org VfL Borussia! Força Barça! SF 49ers! Use Debian GNU/Linux, PostgreSQL
