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- Subject: installing ssh: "broken pipe" in postinst: bash dependency prob
- From: Brian Sammon <brians+@cs.cmu.edu>
- Date: Sat, 20 Jul 2002 12:29:44 -0400
- Message-id: <E17Vx7s-0004sk-00@master.debian.org>
Package: ssh Version: 3.4p1-1 Severity: minor I had bash 2.01.1-4.1 (from slink) installed. The postinst script for ssh does update-alternatives --display $cmd | grep -q ssh which emits a "broken pipe" error when grep finds ssh I don't think this affects the functionality of the postinst script, but it has the effect of making the user nervous. This was fixed when I upgraded to the woody version of bash. I suggest a versioned dependency on bash.
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- To: 153670-done@bugs.debian.org
- Subject: Re: installing ssh: "broken pipe" in postinst: bash dependency prob
- From: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
- Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2007 12:41:22 +0000
- Message-id: <20071224124122.GA4367@riva.ucam.org>
- In-reply-to: <E17Vx7s-0004sk-00@master.debian.org>
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On Sat, Jul 20, 2002 at 12:29:44PM -0400, Brian Sammon wrote: > Package: ssh > Version: 3.4p1-1 > Severity: minor > > I had bash 2.01.1-4.1 (from slink) installed. > The postinst script for ssh does > update-alternatives --display $cmd | grep -q ssh > which emits a "broken pipe" error when grep finds ssh > I don't think this affects the functionality of the postinst script, but it > has the effect of making the user nervous. > This was fixed when I upgraded to the woody version of bash. > > I suggest a versioned dependency on bash. I think this might have been a good idea at the time, but five years later I don't think there's a lot of point. Even woody is now two releases behind the current stable release, and is no longer security-supported. I'm closing this out now unless you think there's still a compelling reason to add the versioned dependency (which after all would just be documenting a bug in another package). Thanks, -- Colin Watson [cjwatson@debian.org]
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