Re: Accepted sdm 0.4.1-2 (source all)
On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 02:40:37PM +0100, Julien Cristau wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 12:57:45 +0000, Vagrant Cascadian wrote:
>
> > sdm (0.4.1-2) unstable; urgency=low
> > .
> [...]
> > * No longer include dash as a dependency; it is included in essential.
> > * Add lintian overrides for missing-dep-for-interpreter dash, as dash
> > is now essential.
>
> My understanding was that dash was only in the Essential set as the
> default provider of /bin/sh, and that /bin/dash was explicitly *not*
> guaranteed to stay in Essential, and thus packages using that need to
> keep their dependencies. Did I misunderstand, or is the above change
> wrong?
One problem is that Debian lacks a mechanism to prevent the removal
of /bin/sh (and also of the root shell) by the packaging system.
For example if you set the root shell to zsh-static, an upgrade can
remove the shell temporarily.
Cheers,
--
Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>
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