Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> writes:
On Sun, Jul 26 2009, Raphael Geissert wrote:
Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
So the deconf thing is purely a temporary thing and goes away. There
won't be a choice left. Users will just get /bin/sh pointing to dash
period.
No, /bin/sh is shipped to guarantee a symlink.
I take this to mean that installaations with /bin/sh -> /bin/bash
will not be affected? That is good, if true.
How could it not be changed? Unless something dpkg-diverts /bin/sh
away from dash (which sort of conflicts with dash possibly
dpkg-diverting it away from bash) then dpkg will overwrite /bin/sh
when it unpacks the new dash. So unless you tell dash not to divert
and then add a dummy diversion of /bin/sh from dash before updating
you will get /bin/sh changed.
Or dash could have preinst code that adds the diversion on itself if
it detects it is being updated from a system that has bash as
/bin/sh. Didn't see a plan for that. If that is planed then be a step
forward.