On 31.08.20 22:19, Fabrice BAUZAC-STEHLY wrote: > Simon McVittie writes: > >> which(1) is non-standardized, which is likely to be part of the reason >> why Debian has its own implementation not shared with other Linux >> distributions. Some other Linux distributions, for example Fedora and >> Arch Linux, use GNU Which <https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/which/> and >> that doesn't seem to support the -s option either (but does support a lot >> of other non-standard options). Adding a -s option to the debianutils >> implementation of `which` will help your scripts to run on Debian and >> (eventually) Debian derivatives like Ubuntu, but won't help your scripts >> to run on Fedora or Arch. > > Is there a reason why Debian doesn't use GNU Which? Sounds like > unnecessary maintenance to me...
Well, it looks like GNU which was last updated in 2015 (both tarball and CVS) and despite GNU redirecting to a github.io page it doesn't look like there is any more up-to-date repository of it either. So I'm not sure if maintenance is a great argument here. Although I will note that Archlinux does not actually patch it. Kind regards Philipp Kern
