Bug#994275: Reverting breaking changes in debianutils

[Sean Whitton]

Hello Clint,

On Fri 24 Sep 2021 at 12:52PM GMT, Clint Adams wrote:

> What I want is for GNU which to stop languishing in NEW, for the dozen
> people who keep complaining that FreeBSD which is better and some other
> volunteer should package FreeBSD which to actually spend the 15 minutes
> to do the work of packaging it, and if anyone wants to retain what I'll
> call "cjwatson which", to package that separately as well.
>
> Any subset of the above allows me to stop shipping which.debianutils
> post-release, and hopefully not install any which-providing package on
> my system.

I thought what you wanted was to drop cjwatson-which, either in favour
of no which in Debian at all, or the option to install GNU or BSD which.

However, you have now suggested that someone could package
cjwatson-which in another package.  But in that case, what do you see
removing cjwatson-which from debianutils as achieving?

Thanks.

-- 
Sean Whitton
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