> "surely no one competent would choose to have a package depend on `which` when a standard POSIX utility can do a better job".
This is one of the most ridiculous takes I've heard and severely out of touch with shell scripts out in the wild, to say nothing of the expectations of Unix users typing at an interactive shell.
First time I used Debian was '99 or 2000. It's been a go-to Linux distro for me for a long time. This is disappointing.
The only portability wrinkle I've personally seen is that old Solaris behaved differently when the program isn't found. It would say "no $1 in $PATH" to stdout, whereas more recent systems just don't display anything.
