Bug#993582: `which` replacement is not usable for several years

2021-09-13 Thread Dan Merillat
On Sun, 5 Sep 2021 14:56:36 + Clint Adams wrote: > On Fri, Sep 03, 2021 at 01:59:17PM +0200, chrysn wrote: > > In light of this, please reconsider the deprecation and removal > > schedule. > > Because of the introduction of alternatives to support GNU which and > FreeBSD which, debianutils

Bug#993582: `which` replacement is not usable for several years

2021-09-05 Thread Clint Adams
On Fri, Sep 03, 2021 at 01:59:17PM +0200, chrysn wrote: > In light of this, please reconsider the deprecation and removal > schedule. Because of the introduction of alternatives to support GNU which and FreeBSD which, debianutils which can't be removed before bookworm's release anyway.

Bug#993582: `which` replacement is not usable for several years

2021-09-03 Thread chrysn
Package: debianutils Version: 5.4-3 Severity: normal File: /usr/bin/which While the advertised replacement for `which` has been in shells for ages, it is only in GNU Make 4.3 (released January 2020) that `command` can be used, for otherwise Make is trying to be smart and fails in surprising ways