Re: command -v in postinsts violating policy
Luca - De Whiskey's - De Vitis wrote:
> > Sorry; I misspoke before. `type' is not mandated by POSIX, and `which'
> > isn't even mentioned.
>
> But `which' is in debianutils, that is base. It can be used by maintainer
> script without breaking the package installation procedure.
This is the best -- no, the only -- idea I've seen so far.
But, debianutils is not essential; anything that did this would need a
dep on it, or we'd have to make it essential, or require that shells
that didn't implement which internally depend on debianutils.
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