Devuan bug report logs - #604
sensible-editor uses deprecated "which" from debianutils

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.devuan.org (full text, mbox, reply):

Package: reportbug
Version: 7.10.3+devuan1
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

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   * What led up to the situation?

Upgrading debianutils to 5.x.

On running reportbug I get:

Spawning sensible-editor...
/usr/bin/which: this version of 'which' is deprecated and should not be used.


   * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
     ineffective)?
   * What was the outcome of this action?
   * What outcome did you expect instead?

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-- Package-specific info:
** Environment settings:
INTERFACE="text"

** /home/amarsh04/.reportbugrc:
reportbug_version "3.5"
mode standard
ui text
realname "Arthur Marsh"
email "arthur.marsh@internode.on.net"

-- System Information:
Distributor ID:	Devuan
Description:	Devuan GNU/Linux 4 (chimaera)
Release:	4
Codename:	n/a
Architecture: x86_64

Kernel: Linux 5.14.0-rc6+ (SMP w/4 CPU threads)
Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_GB
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)

Versions of packages reportbug depends on:
ii  apt                2.2.4+devuan1
ii  python3            3.9.2-3
ii  python3-reportbug  7.10.3+devuan1
ii  sensible-utils     0.0.14

reportbug recommends no packages.

Versions of packages reportbug suggests:
pn  claws-mail                                 <none>
ii  debconf-utils                              1.5.77
ii  debsums                                    3.0.2
pn  dlocate                                    <none>
ii  emacs-bin-common                           1:27.1+1-3.1
ii  exim4                                      4.94.2-7
ii  exim4-daemon-light [mail-transport-agent]  4.94.2-7
ii  file                                       1:5.39-3
ii  gnupg                                      2.2.27-2
pn  python3-urwid                              <none>
pn  reportbug-gtk                              <none>
ii  xdg-utils                                  1.1.3-4.1

Versions of packages python3-reportbug depends on:
ii  apt                2.2.4+devuan1
ii  file               1:5.39-3
ii  python3            3.9.2-3
ii  python3-apt        2.2.1
ii  python3-debian     0.1.39
ii  python3-debianbts  3.2.0
ii  python3-requests   2.25.1+dfsg-2
ii  sensible-utils     0.0.14

python3-reportbug suggests no packages.

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Message #8 received at 604@bugs.devuan.org (full text, mbox, reply):

Control: reassign -1 sensible-utils
Control: found -1 0.0.14
Control: retitle -1 sensible-editor uses deprecated "which" from debianutils
Control: tags -1 debian

Arthur,

Many thanks for this.

Reportbug actually uses sensible-editor from the sensible-utils package and that
uses the now deprecated which command.

Devuan doesn't fork sensible-utils, so we will need this to be fixed in
Debian. It has already been requested in Debian's BTS[1].

Mark

[1]  https://bugs.debian.org/972999

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