Re: procps with pidof is released
On Tue, 10 Dec 2013 13:22:27 -0800, Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
wrote:
>On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 09:02:21AM +0000, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
>> Steve Langasek dixit:
>
>> >(For values of "permanently" that include "we now have two implementations
>> >of sh in Essential, because no one has done the work to let us get rid of
>> >bash".)
>
>> Maybe because the offered alternative sucks so much.
>
>You are totally, completely, 100% missing the point. We can't remove bash
>from Essential because packages are silently using /bin/bash without
>depending on bash, because they've been *told not to*. This is not about
>your hobby horse issue of whose /bin/sh is better, it's about the fact that
>once an interface makes its way into Essential, we have a very hard time
>removing it.
The first step would be to change policy to no longer deprecate
depending on bash if one uses ä!/bin/bash scripts.
The second step would be a lintian warning if a package contains a
#!/bin/bash script without depending on bash.
Greetings
Marc
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