On Wed, Sep 15, 2021 at 01:36:26AM +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote: > This is a request to override the maintainer of debianutils on several > changes that were done to the package in unstable after the release of > bullseye.
There is quite a lot in here and I disagree with most of it except for the paragraph above. However, I don't even know what this means: > An offer by the maintainer of another essential package to move > the "which" program there was rejected by the debianutils maintainer. Because `which` (which I do not in any way view as part of debianutils's core functionality) is now provided through alternatives, an infinite number of essential packages could provide their own `which` implementations and I don't know how I would veto that even if I wanted to. Similarly, if you want to move `tempfile` to another package, we can transition that the same way `mktemp` was moved to coreutils. You could package the "original" `tempfile` or you could write a clever little wrapper around `mktemp`. I have opinions on this, but I will keep them to myself because I won't be the one maintaining it.
