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#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 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 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#994275: Draft resolution for reverting changes in debianutils

2021-10-17 Thread Wookey
On 2021-10-13 19:37 -0300, David Bremner wrote: > Sean Whitton writes: > >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 >

Bug#994275: Draft resolution for reverting changes in debianutils

2021-10-13 Thread David Bremner
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 Debian 12. Is it really advice if we say "must"? > 2. Overrule

Bug#994275: Draft resolution for reverting changes in debianutils

2021-10-13 Thread Sean Whitton
Dear all, We think we might have a consensus on the following resolution text. We could be wrong, as the judgement of consensus has been made by just a few of us. We agreed in our meeting today that I'll start a vote a week from today unless a ctte member asks for a delay. Thus, we expect to