Hello Adrian, On Wed 15 Sep 2021 at 01:36AM +03, Adrian Bunk wrote: > Package: tech-ctte > Severity: normal > > 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. > > > More specifically, I am asking the Technical Committee to decide that: > > 1. The "which" program must be provided by an essential package. > > 2. The "which" program must not print any deprecation warnings. > > 3. The "which" program must not be provided through alternatives. > > 4. The debianutils package must continue to provide the "tempfile" program. > > 5. Programs in debianutils must not be moved to /usr unless there is > project-wide consensus on packages doing such a move, and premature > moving must be reverted. Roughly speaking, you're asking for a complete reversion of the change. Do you perhaps have a middle-ground proposal which would (i) accept the decision of the debianutils maintainer that which should be removed from the Essential set within a release cycle or so, but also would (ii) include a transition/deprecation plan which would impose less of a burden, from your point of view, on Debian contributors? The TC can't do detailed design work, so without such a proposal on the table, we're left deciding between a complete reversion and doing nothing at all. It would be good to have more options. -- Sean Whitton
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