Bug#994275: Reverting breaking changes in debianutils
On Fri, 2021-09-24 at 09:26 +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> In my opinion, an amicable middle-ground proposal would be that the
> debianutils maintainer completely removes "which" from debianutils,
> and assuming the sysvinit-utils maintainers agree, that they adopt
> both the existing "which" and (at least temporarily) "tempfile".
There is an open bug asking for sysvinit-utils to no longer be
essential[1]. With that in mind one should probably not move new stuff
to it to keep it in the essential set.
(This is no argument for/against `which` and/or `tempfile` to be
considered essential.)
Ansgar
[1]: https://bugs.debian.org/851747
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