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Re: Future of /usr/bin/which in Debian?



Hello Boyuan,

On Fri 27 Aug 2021 at 04:48PM -04, Boyuan Yang wrote:

> Hi,
>
> 在 2021-08-22星期日的 17:36 +0200,Andrej Shadura写道:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On Thu, 19 Aug 2021, at 23:17, Boyuan Yang wrote:
>> > 在 2021-08-18星期三的 22:59 +0200,Geert Stappers写道:
>> > > > /usr/bin/which.debianutils 0
>> > > >
>> > > > in postinst and so on so that FreeBSD which and GNU which and friends
>> > > > could
>> > > > take over.
>> > >
>> > > Please do.  Make such take over possible.
>> > > It is what
>> > > https://salsa.debian.org/debian/debianutils/-/merge_requests/6#note_242172
>> > > is asking for.
>> >
>> > So we will have https://salsa.debian.org/debian/which-gnu providing a
>> > binary
>> > package with name "which". I will upload it to the NEW queue soon.
>>
>> I'd rather suggest the FreeBSD which, which I'm mirroring here:
>> https://salsa.debian.org/andrewsh/freebsd-which/
>>
>> I think it's much simpler than the GNU one.
>
> The GNU which package is now in NEW queue:
> https://ftp-master.debian.org/new/gnu-which_2.21-1.html
>
> Having both freebsd which and gnu which in Debian archive is definitely ok. If
> you would like, please also upload freebsd-which onto unstable.

It's okay, indeed, but please do consider NEW queue workload with things
like this -- upload it if you're sure it's going to get used, not just
for completeness.

-- 
Sean Whitton

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