On Fri, 2021-09-24 at 09:26 +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote: > In my opinion, an amicable middle-ground proposal would be that the > debianutils maintainer completely removes "which" from debianutils, > and assuming the sysvinit-utils maintainers agree, that they adopt > both the existing "which" and (at least temporarily) "tempfile".
There is an open bug asking for sysvinit-utils to no longer be essential[1]. With that in mind one should probably not move new stuff to it to keep it in the essential set. (This is no argument for/against `which` and/or `tempfile` to be considered essential.) Ansgar [1]: https://bugs.debian.org/851747
