On Mon, Jun 22, 2020 at 19:04:49 +0200, Michael Meskes wrote: > > I think it's probably best at this point to have bsdmainutils depend > > on > > bsdextrautils. That gets rid of the breakage in the place where it > > originated, and doesn't leave things without a transition path. > > I beg to disagree, there is a transition plan, namely depending on the > right package. Things change, that's what unstable is for. Depending on > bsdmainutils to get bsdextrautils does not sound right to me. > Depending on bsdmainutils to get col et al seems entirely right, it's been right forever, there doesn't seem to be a reason to break that both for dependent packages and for end users. Especially not without notice.
Cheers, Julien