On Tue, Oct 26, 2021 at 09:53:55PM +0200, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > “It only exists if it’s in Debian.” > > SCNR. But this is relevant, here. > > [ overly harsh words deleted ]
That's right, so we print a deprecation warning at the beginning of the development cycle to raise awareness of the situation and this leads to the interested parties packaging the whiches they want to see in Debian over the subsequent ~2-year period. This didn't work for tempfile because everyone still using tempfile seems to redirect stderr to /dev/null and never saw the warning. Ironically, it seems it hasn't yet worked for the original catalyst, but it has worked for GNU which, modulo the problem of the NEW queue. As a side effect, it seems to have shined a spotlight on some broken build systems.
