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



Hi,

On Sat, 27 Sep 2014, Guillem Jover wrote:
> > 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?

Wouter has been too quick, it's not dpkg. The output shown by Troy points
to the menu trigger which runs /usr/bin/update-menus which in turn calls
bash:
$ strings /usr/bin/update-menus|grep bash
exec /bin/bash -o pipefail -c '

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