On Sun, Nov 21, 1999 at 01:48:31PM +0100, Torsten Landschoff wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 20, 1999 at 02:07:26PM -0800, Joel Klecker wrote:
> > There's a serious issue with /bin/sh that needs to be addressed. Some NMU
> > completely destroyed bash's Essential status[1] by handling the /bin/sh
> > symlink outside of dpkg's control. The /bin/sh crap needs to be removed
> > from the maintainer scripts and the binary package needs to contain the
> > /bin/sh symlink again. This is a critical bug.
> Sure it is. I did the upload and this bug is already in the BTS. There
> are also some approaches to solve this in the bug logs. I don't think
> we should have the /bin/sh link in the package again. There must be
> another way letting the local admin change the /bin/sh link.
Of course there is (there's actually two), and this is documented in
the relevant bug reports.
They seem to have been downgraded or marked as fixed though :-/
Cheers,
aj
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