Bug#994275: Reverting breaking changes in debianutils

2021-10-26 Thread Clint Adams
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

Bug#994275: Reverting breaking changes in debianutils

2021-10-26 Thread Thorsten Glaser
On Tue, 26 Oct 2021, Clint Adams wrote: > effort maintaining a utility which is superfluous given the > existence of alternatives which are preferred by people who care “It only exists if it’s in Debian.” SCNR. But this is relevant, here. [ overly harsh words deleted ] bye, //mirabilos --

Bug#994275: Reverting breaking changes in debianutils

2021-10-26 Thread Clint Adams
On Tue, Oct 26, 2021 at 12:46:43PM +0200, tito wrote: > It is possible to create a single command package if somebody > will maintain it ( e.g busybox-which) like it was done for busybox-syslogd. > tempfile is missing tough. If someone wants to do that, I suppose they can. On Tue, Oct 26, 2021

Bug#994275: Call for votes on "Reverting breaking changes in debianutils"

2021-10-26 Thread Niko Tyni
On Wed, Oct 20, 2021 at 12:30:54PM -0700, Sean Whitton wrote: > === Resolution A === > > The Technical Committee resolves: > > 1. The debianutils package must continue to provide the which(1) program >until a compatible utility is available in a package that is at least >transitively

Bug#994275: Call for votes on "Reverting breaking changes in debianutils"

2021-10-26 Thread Margarita Manterola
> === Resolution A === > > The Technical Committee resolves: > > 1. The debianutils package must continue to provide the which(1) program >until a compatible utility is available in a package that is at least >transitively essential in Debian 12. > >For the Debian 12 release, we

Bug#994275: Reverting breaking changes in debianutils

2021-10-26 Thread Wookey
On 2021-10-24 19:08 +, Clint Adams wrote: > On Sun, Oct 17, 2021 at 02:33:44PM +0100, Wookey wrote: > > I think causing build failures is enough reason to say this. I don't > > suppose that mine is the only one. Yes those builds are buggy and > > should not do this, and we should make efforts

Bug#994275: Reverting breaking changes in debianutils

2021-10-26 Thread tito
On Sun, 24 Oct 2021 19:08:20 + Clint Adams wrote: > On Sat, Oct 16, 2021 at 05:56:17PM +0200, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > > No. You’re conflating “which ”, which indeed is mostly redundant > > with “command -v”, with “which -a ”, which is NOT otherwise > > available, and a very useful thing to