> > It is cumbersome for new developers to read dput's documentation and > > learn how to use it, only to discover soon after that dput isn't the > > main tool for uploads or dak commands anymore. > > This paragraph seems to be the main motivation for this bug report. > > I disagree. If there are features ‘dput’ needs, my preferred approach is to > add them to ‘dput’ and make the replacement unnecessary.
This is a simplistic answer but you could look at all the features dput-ng has and add them to dput, like support for dak-commands (https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2012/09/msg00008.html). But I think it would be simpler to deprecate some of the duplicate and overlapping tools instead of spearing resources thin and trying to maintain all of them.
