On 2021-09-20 04:48 +0000, Clint Adams wrote: > On Sun, Sep 19, 2021 at 05:32:04PM +0100, Wookey wrote: > > I must admit that I have no idea why replacing such a longstanding > > utility is deemed necessary. > > Maybe this riddle will help. > > Imagine that you are the product manager for Debian `which`. According > to the hatemail in my inbox, this is the most important utility in the > history of time,
:-) > such that even printing a warning to stderr causes > global devastation, block hints, and calls for impeachment. I do agree that it's pretty shoddy of bazel to break because a utility several layers down issues stderr text whilst still returning a success code. And yes I/someone should probably try to actually work out why and fix it... But there is a lot of shit code in the world, and only so many hours. > You go on a Gemba walk, Never heard of a Gemba walk before, so I learned something today :-) > Wearing your customer-centricity hat, what is the optimal set of > personas to unperson so that you can implement a solution that works > for everyone who still matters? I'm not fussy. Any of a,b,c or d would suit me fine. It's just e (issue deprecation message), which caused me trouble. Thanks for explaining what the actual problem is. You have my sympathy trying to navigate the mess. Wookey -- Principal hats: Linaro, Debian, Wookware, ARM http://wookware.org/
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