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Re: /usr/bin/which



On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 03:00:00PM +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> since "which" has now become an alternatives, 
> package postinst while debootstrapping cannot call "/usr/bin/which",
> before postinst of debianutils is called, and (probably) needs to 
> call which.debianutils.

Ugh. which is in an Essential package; we're entitled to assume that it
exists even while debianutils is unconfigured. This is a bug that should
be fixed (e.g. by using diversions instead of alternatives, perhaps).

-- 
Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]



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