Bug#812709: marked as done (cvs-switchroot requires /bin/mksh but it is not installed)
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has caused the Debian Bug report #812709,
regarding cvs-switchroot requires /bin/mksh but it is not installed
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--- Begin Message ---
Package: cvs
Version: 2:1.12.13+real-15
Severity: normal
The cvs-switchroot program is a script but its interpeter is not
installed. I assume that a dependency which should exist is simply
missing.
~$ cvs-switchroot
bash: /usr/bin/cvs-switchroot: /bin/mksh: bad interpreter: No such file or directory
~$ type cvs-switchroot
cvs-switchroot is hashed (/usr/bin/cvs-switchroot)
~$ head -n 1 /usr/bin/cvs-switchroot
#!/bin/mksh
~$ ls -l /bin/mksh
/bin/ls: cannot access /bin/mksh: No such file or directory
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.2
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_IE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_IE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages cvs depends on:
ii adduser 3.113+nmu3
ii dpkg 1.17.26
ii install-info 5.2.0.dfsg.1-6
ii libbsd0 0.7.0-2
ii libc6 2.19-18+deb8u1
ii libgssapi-krb5-2 1.12.1+dfsg-19+deb8u1
ii libkrb5-3 1.12.1+dfsg-19+deb8u1
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.8.dfsg-2+b1
Versions of packages cvs recommends:
ii openssh-client 1:6.7p1-5
Versions of packages cvs suggests:
pn mksh <none>
ii rcs 5.9.3-1
-- no debconf information
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--- Begin Message ---
James Youngman dixit:
>The cvs-switchroot program is a script but its interpeter is not
>installed. I assume that a dependency which should exist is simply
>missing.
No, it’s a contributed script which is of only some, limited, use
and only bundled with cvs because not doing that would be even more
awkward.
mksh was originally in Recommends for this, but even that was deemed
too much by several people, so it’s now in Suggests (cf. #631110).
That’s enough to satisfy using it as interpreter for a not normally
used script, and even lintian agrees.
bye,
//mirabilos
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mksh auf jedem System zu installieren.“
-- XTaran auf der OpenRheinRuhr, ganz begeistert
(EN: “[…]uhr.gz is a reason to install mksh on every system.”)
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