Bug#994275: Reverting breaking changes in debianutils
On Wed, Sep 15, 2021 at 01:36:26AM +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> This is a request to override the maintainer of debianutils on several
> changes that were done to the package in unstable after the release of
> bullseye.
There is quite a lot in here and I disagree with most of it except for
the paragraph above.
However, I don't even know what this means:
> An offer by the maintainer of another essential package to move
> the "which" program there was rejected by the debianutils maintainer.
Because `which` (which I do not in any way view as part of
debianutils's core functionality) is now provided through
alternatives, an infinite number of essential packages could
provide their own `which` implementations and I don't know how
I would veto that even if I wanted to.
Similarly, if you want to move `tempfile` to another package, we can
transition that the same way `mktemp` was moved to coreutils. You
could package the "original" `tempfile` or you could write a clever
little wrapper around `mktemp`. I have opinions on this, but I will
keep them to myself because I won't be the one maintaining it.
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