Re: Accepted sdm 0.4.1-2 (source all)
Raphael Geissert <geissert@debian.org> writes:
> Russ Allbery wrote:
>> I think it's moderately unlikely that we're going to manage to keep dash
>> from being treated as essential even if we say that it's only essential
>> for the /bin/sh functionality.
> Based on [1], [2] and [3], there's no single package that ships a /bin/dash
> script but doesn't depend on dash. If we exclude dash from the *depends-on-
> essential-* checks I don't think it will be too difficult to preserve the
> current status.
Okay, let's just do that, then, and see how it goes.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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