On Wed, Aug 19, 2020 at 01:45:05PM +0000, Clint Adams wrote: > On Tue, Aug 18, 2020 at 10:55:41AM -0400, Boyuan Yang wrote: > > In theory any Debian Developers may merge, but the debianutils package is > > maintained by clint@ and srivasta@ so they are responsible for this > > package. I > > am adding them to the email receiver list explicitly. > > Now that `command -v` is mandated by POSIX, it would make more > sense to transition `which` out of debianutils.
debianutils is essential/required, and there is an infinite amount of shell scripts and even non-shell programs that use the `which` binary without needing a dependency on anything. Dropping it without breaking the entire world is going to be pretty difficult to achieve, unless it moves to another essential/required package. That said, it could very well be reimplemented as a very small wrapper around command -v.
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