Hello, On Sat 16 Oct 2021 at 05:50AM GMT, Clint Adams wrote: > On Wed, Oct 13, 2021 at 01:05:50PM -0700, Sean Whitton wrote: >> The debianutils package must continue to provide the tempfile(1) >> program until a compatible utility is available in a package that is >> at least transitively essential in Debian 12. > > Could you define "a compatible utility"? I think it would be equivalent to the sense of compatibility that's relevant when deciding whether two utilities can share a name managed by the alternatives system? So, a utility which behaves the same as cjwatson-which when invoked in the ways in which cjwatson-which is validly invoked, possibly with some additional command line switches and the like. -- Sean Whitton
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