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Re: bash package removing /bin/sh on upgrade



On Sun, Oct 03, 1999 at 09:44:25AM -0400, Raul Miller wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 02, 1999 at 12:30:04PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
> > Just having /bin/sh included in the .deb is Good Enough -- diversions
> > work as designed.
> Good Enough is not good enough (TM).

*shrug* Name a case where it fails.

> > There's a different preinst in one of the bug reports, ummm, #34717 I
> > think, that does the diversion stuff itself, too.
> That uses --rename, which is A Very Bad Thing in this case.

Whyso?

Cheers,
aj

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