Sean Whitton <spwhit...@spwhitton.name> writes: > 1. Offer advice:
> The debianutils package must continue to provide the which(1) program > until a compatible utility is available in a package that is at least > transitively essential in Debian 12. Is it really advice if we say "must"? > 2. Overrule maintainer of debianutils: > > The which(1) program must not print any deprecation warnings. I remain to be convinced on this point. If I understand the issue correctly the problem is with autopkgtests failing because they were not expecting output on stderr. I don't think people are really entitled to expect which(1) to never print to stderr. Even when debian-policy recommended 'which' it apparently recommended redirecting stderr. I also don't see failures of autopkgtests as directly impacting users in the same way a failure to build or a failure to install does. I understand that people find the message annoying, and perhaps not that useful, but I don't think that rises the level justifying overriding a maintainer.