Re: bash exorcism experiment ('bug' 762923 & 763012)

[Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>]

Hi!

On Sat, 2014-09-27 at 18:30:17 +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 27, 2014 at 10:32:18AM -0500, Troy Benjegerdes wrote:
> > So far, I need to do the following to remove bash (and associated risk of
> > 0-days until something sane is done about functions)
> 
> That is not supported, sorry. Bash is in the "essential" set, which
> means that packages can (and do!) use functionality from bash without an
> explicit dependency.

This has been discussed before, I've done a quick initial summary of
the previous discussion here:

  <https://wiki.debian.org/Proposals/RemoveBashFromEssential>

> In the case of bash, dpkg can (and does!) use bash explicitly (i.e.,
> without going through /bin/sh), so removing bash will pretty much nuke
> your system.

Hmm, where?

Thanks,
Guillem