Hi all, I just noticed that the "which" command provided by debianutils has been declared as deprecated in Debian Sid:
% /usr/bin/which test /usr/bin/which: this version of 'which' is deprecated and should not be used. /usr/bin/test Obviously it was caused by the upload of debianutils/5.0-1 onto Unstable (see https://salsa.debian.org/debian/debianutils/-/commit/3a8dd10b4502f7bae8fc6973c13ce23fc9da7efb ): -------------------------------------- .SH DEPRECATION Since type and command \-v were mandated by POSIX, this utility is no longer useful for maintainer scripts and thus will be removed from debianutils. -------------------------------------- I did some search and found related discussion thread at https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2020/08/msg00081.html , which looks pretty reasonable. Now I'm just wondering what would be the good alternative that provides /usr/bin/which. Obviously we had a round of discussion already (see https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2020/08/msg00340.html ), but probably we need a solution this time following debianutils which's deprecation. The most reasonable choice might be GNU which anyway. Besides, will the new "which" tool be installed in Debian by default? Since debianutils is Essential:yes, not providing "which" tool by default could probably break some existing packages. Thanks, Boyuan Yang
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