Bug#994388: tech-ctte: More specific advice regarding merged-/usr and implications of #978636

2021-10-18 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello, On Wed 13 Oct 2021 at 08:13PM +01, Simon McVittie wrote: > I'm calling for votes on the following resolution as formal advice from > the Technical Committee (Constitution §6.1.5). There are no non-accepted > amendments, so the options to vote on are "yes" or "further discussion". I vote

Bug#994388: tech-ctte: More specific advice regarding merged-/usr and implications of #978636

2021-10-18 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Simon McVittie dijo [Wed, Oct 13, 2021 at 08:13:08PM +0100]: > I'm calling for votes on the following resolution as formal advice from > the Technical Committee (Constitution §6.1.5). There are no non-accepted > amendments, so the options to vote on are "yes" or "further discussion". My vote on

Bug#994275: Draft resolution for reverting changes in debianutils

2021-10-18 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello, On Wed 13 Oct 2021 at 07:37PM -03, David Bremner wrote: > Sean Whitton writes: > >> 1. Offer advice: > >>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

Bug#994388: marked as done (tech-ctte: More specific advice regarding merged-/usr and implications of #978636)

2021-10-18 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
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Bug#994275: Reverting breaking changes in debianutils

2021-10-18 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello, On Sat 16 Oct 2021 at 05:50AM GMT, Clint Adams wrote: > On Wed, Oct 13, 2021 at 01:05:50PM -0700, Sean Whitton wrote: >>The debianutils package must continue to provide the tempfile(1) >>program until a compatible utility is available in a package that is >>at least

Bug#994388: tech-ctte: More specific advice regarding merged-/usr and implications of #978636

2021-10-18 Thread Margarita Manterola
> I'm calling for votes on the following resolution as formal advice from > the Technical Committee (Constitution §6.1.5). There are no non-accepted > amendments, so the options to vote on are "yes" or "further discussion". My vote on the text quoted below: yes > further discussion > >

Bug#994388: tech-ctte: More specific advice regarding merged-/usr and implications of #978636

2021-10-18 Thread Christoph Berg
Re: Simon McVittie > I'm calling for votes on the following resolution as formal advice from > the Technical Committee (Constitution §6.1.5). There are no non-accepted > amendments, so the options to vote on are "yes" or "further discussion". I vote yes > further discussion. > begin text to

Bug#994275: Draft resolution for reverting changes in debianutils

2021-10-18 Thread Adam Borowski
On Mon, Oct 18, 2021 at 11:28:52AM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > There have been other reports of failures due to the message on stderr, > autopkgtest is not the only one (wookey mentionned a build failure). > > In any case, a message saying that which is deprecated when in fact > `which` will

Bug#994275: Draft resolution for reverting changes in debianutils

2021-10-18 Thread Christoph Berg
Re: Adam Borowski > I'm even considering a MBF to go the _other_ way: change all but most > obviously correct uses of `command -v` to `which`. Please just don't. Christoph

Bug#994275: Draft resolution for reverting changes in debianutils

2021-10-18 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi, On Wed, 13 Oct 2021, David Bremner wrote: > >The which(1) program must not print any deprecation warnings. > > I remain to be convinced on this point. If I understand the issue > correctly the problem is with autopkgtests failing because they were not > expecting output on stderr. I

Bug#994388: tech-ctte: More specific advice regarding merged-/usr and implications of #978636

2021-10-18 Thread Niko Tyni
On Wed, Oct 13, 2021 at 08:13:08PM +0100, Simon McVittie wrote: > I'm calling for votes on the following resolution as formal advice from > the Technical Committee (Constitution §6.1.5). There are no non-accepted > amendments, so the options to vote on are "yes" or "further discussion". I vote: