Bug#994275: Reverting breaking changes in debianutils

2021-09-24 Thread Clint Adams
On Fri, Sep 24, 2021 at 03:00:59PM -0700, Sean Whitton wrote: > I thought what you wanted was to drop cjwatson-which, either in favour > of no which in Debian at all, or the option to install GNU or BSD which. > > However, you have now suggested that someone could package > cjwatson-which in anoth

Bug#994275: Reverting breaking changes in debianutils

2021-09-24 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello Clint, On Fri 24 Sep 2021 at 12:52PM GMT, Clint Adams wrote: > What I want is for GNU which to stop languishing in NEW, for the dozen > people who keep complaining that FreeBSD which is better and some other > volunteer should package FreeBSD which to actually spend the 15 minutes > to do t

Bug#994275: Reverting breaking changes in debianutils

2021-09-24 Thread Clint Adams
On Fri, Sep 24, 2021 at 09:26:19AM +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote: > Talking about "which", it might be good to get an explanation from the > maintainer what he wants, and why, and then discuss based on that. What I want is for GNU which to stop languishing in NEW, for the dozen people who keep complai

Bug#994275: Reverting breaking changes in debianutils

2021-09-24 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Fri, Sep 24, 2021 at 10:44:06AM +0200, Ansgar wrote: > On Fri, 2021-09-24 at 09:26 +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > In my opinion, an amicable middle-ground proposal would be that the > > debianutils maintainer completely removes "which" from debianutils, > > and assuming the sysvinit-utils mainta

Bug#994275: Reverting breaking changes in debianutils

2021-09-24 Thread Ansgar
On Fri, 2021-09-24 at 09:26 +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote: > In my opinion, an amicable middle-ground proposal would be that the > debianutils maintainer completely removes "which" from debianutils, > and assuming the sysvinit-utils maintainers agree, that they adopt > both the existing "which" and (at

Bug#994275: Reverting breaking changes in debianutils

2021-09-24 Thread Thorsten Glaser
On Fri, 24 Sep 2021, Adrian Bunk wrote: > and assuming the sysvinit-utils maintainers agree, that they adopt > both the existing "which" and (at least temporarily) "tempfile". Independent of which “which” is to be adopted, I ask for this “which” to be one that *does* support “which -a”, which is