Bug#994275: Draft resolution for reverting changes in debianutils
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 don't think people are really entitled to
> expect which(1) to never print to stderr. Even when debian-policy
> recommended 'which' it apparently recommended redirecting stderr.
>
> I also don't see failures of autopkgtests as directly impacting users in
> the same way a failure to build or a failure to install does.
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 stay around (but maintained in another packages) is not
helpful.
> I understand that people find the message annoying, and perhaps not that
> useful, but I don't think that rises the level justifying overriding a
> maintainer.
I think it does.
Cheers,
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