Re: experimental bash-2.03 and readline-4.0 packages for potato

[Joel Klecker <jk@espy.org>]

At 13:48 +0100 1999-11-21, Torsten Landschoff wrote:
>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.

dpkg-divert, it's there, it works, it's safe. I don't see why the bash
maintainer scripts need to be made more complex for the sole benefit of the
few people who use something other than bash as /bin/sh, when those folks
don't really need the additional complexity either.
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