On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 10:48:12PM +0200, Oliver Kiddle wrote:
> On 13 Oct, Jonathan Wiltshire wrote:
> >
> > I've prepared an NMU for ksh (versioned as 93u+-1.1) and
> > uploaded it to DELAYED/00. Please feel free to tell me if I
> > should delay it longer.
>
> While this addresses the direct issue that bug #679966 concerns, the cd
> builtin was broken in various ways in that release and I don't think it
> goes far enough. For example, cd /etc;cd .. leaves you in /etc. That's a
> grave bug as essential scripts could be broken. If you want to dig into
> the upstream changes feel free but it'd be hard to avoid breaking things
> or leaving other subtle cd issues unresolved.
Oh dear, this is rather unfortunate. You're right that brokenness like this
will cause considerable problems in Wheezy if it can't be resolved; our
patch was deliberately minimal to fix the reported problem and still be
suitable for a freeze exception.
> In my opinion, it would be
> better if the debian release goes out with either the old squeeze release
> (93s+20080202-1) or 93u+20120628-1 (which was only bug fixes).
Well, I think the release team have already expressed that they are less
than happy with having a new upstream at this stage. I think the cleanest
thing you could do is revert back to the Squeeze version with an epoch;
another option is to remove ksh from Wheezy and provide the new upstream
through backports later, but this is icky.
As far as this patch is concerned, it is easily reverted by you or I. I
will happily do so if you want me to.
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