On 24/10/17 14:44, Patrick Meade wrote:
>
> Only the first option is acceptable to me, so what needs to be done is
> also clear to me. I'm hoping that the Debian maintainer will be
> willing to revert this change, as that would be the easiest way for
> everybody to win. If not, well... there is some work ahead.
>
Perfectly reasonable.

It seems the obvious way forward is for a redis user who uses this
feature to make a bug report.