On Tue, Feb 11, 2025 at 10:44:49AM +0000, Simon McVittie wrote: > Would there be any ongoing cost to adding a "Provides: dnsutils" to > bind9-dnsutils?
I don't know, and I have no stake in these packages. I'll note that dnsutils was transitional for many years, and generally we as a distro aim to remove transitional packages. > It seems to me that adding that, either before removing > the "real" dnsutils transitional package or at the same time, would avoid > a need for unnecessary churn elsewhere in Debian. ISTM a lot of the churn has already happened, so maybe it's better to have the rest done, too. Chris
