Hello Adrian,
On Wed 15 Sep 2021 at 01:36AM +03, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> Package: tech-ctte
> Severity: normal
>
> This is a request to override the maintainer of debianutils on several
> changes that were done to the package in unstable after the release of
> bullseye.
>
>
> More specifically, I am asking the Technical Committee to decide that:
>
> 1. The "which" program must be provided by an essential package.
>
> 2. The "which" program must not print any deprecation warnings.
>
> 3. The "which" program must not be provided through alternatives.
>
> 4. The debianutils package must continue to provide the "tempfile" program.
>
> 5. Programs in debianutils must not be moved to /usr unless there is
>project-wide consensus on packages doing such a move, and premature
>moving must be reverted.
Roughly speaking, you're asking for a complete reversion of the change.
Do you perhaps have a middle-ground proposal which would
(i) accept the decision of the debianutils maintainer that which should
be removed from the Essential set within a release cycle or so, but
also would
(ii) include a transition/deprecation plan which would impose less of a
burden, from your point of view, on Debian contributors?
The TC can't do detailed design work, so without such a proposal on the
table, we're left deciding between a complete reversion and doing
nothing at all. It would be good to have more options.
--
Sean Whitton
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