If you ever read "The Cathedral and the Bazaar"... Debian feels very far from this original vision, endless drama and politics. Similar to Gnome and Mozilla.
There was a proposal, disagreement, and a vote, which ruled in keeping the "which" command where it is for at least the next major version. "which" is in no danger of disappearing at the moment.
The discussion went approximately:
"`which` is nonstandard and doesn't always work the same. Maybe we should remove it and have everybody use `command -v` instead, which is standard. Also, in testing, I've added a deprecation notice to prepare for it."
"Let's have a vote to see. A lot of people use `which`, and that deprecation notice breaks some builds.
...
Vote says no. Remove the deprecation notice and leave `which` where it is for the next release"
Later, on Hacker News: "Debian might be removing "which"! Why are they doing this?"
Most of the commenters, it seems, never actually read the entire story.
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The discussion went approximately:
"`which` is nonstandard and doesn't always work the same. Maybe we should remove it and have everybody use `command -v` instead, which is standard. Also, in testing, I've added a deprecation notice to prepare for it."
"Let's have a vote to see. A lot of people use `which`, and that deprecation notice breaks some builds.
...
Vote says no. Remove the deprecation notice and leave `which` where it is for the next release"
Later, on Hacker News: "Debian might be removing "which"! Why are they doing this?"
Most of the commenters, it seems, never actually read the entire story.