Package: apt Version: 1.1 Severity: normal I just got upgraded… | Unpacking apt (1.1) over (1.0.10.2) ... … and now, a dist-upgrade has a regression.
Background story: I created a package dash-mksh that contains a (versioned, due to the versioned dependency of bash on dash) Provides for dash, and replaces it completely. This worked in jessie and sid up to today: the package one has installed had precedence, a dist-upgrade never wanted to switch between both (which is good, as not everyone who uses my APT repo wishes to replace their dash package, and everyone who d̲i̲d̲ replace it in no event wishes to have it automatically switched back). This is no longer the case. apt-cache show output added for debugging. (sid-amd64)root@tglase:~ # apt-get --purge dist-upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Starting pkgProblemResolver with broken count: 1 Starting 2 pkgProblemResolver with broken count: 1 Investigating (0) dash-mksh [ amd64 ] < 6 > ( shells ) Broken dash-mksh:amd64 Conflicts on dash [ amd64 ] < none -> 0.5.7-4+b1 > ( shells ) Considering dash:amd64 5207 as a solution to dash-mksh:amd64 5203 Removing dash-mksh:amd64 rather than change dash:amd64 Done Calculating upgrade... Done The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required: libapt-inst1.7 libapt-pkg4.16 Use 'apt autoremove' to remove them. The following packages will be REMOVED: dash-mksh* The following NEW packages will be installed: dash WARNING: The following essential packages will be removed. This should NOT be done unless you know exactly what you are doing! dash-mksh 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 109 kB of archives. After this operation, 148 kB of additional disk space will be used. You are about to do something potentially harmful. To continue type in the phrase 'Yes, do as I say!' ?] nooooo! Abort. (sid-amd64)1|root@tglase:~ # apt-cache show dash dash-mksh Package: dash Source: dash (0.5.7-4) Version: 0.5.7-4+b1 Essential: yes Installed-Size: 191 Maintainer: Gerrit Pape <[email protected]> Architecture: amd64 Depends: debianutils (>= 2.15), dpkg (>= 1.15.0) Pre-Depends: libc6 (>= 2.14) Description-en: POSIX-compliant shell The Debian Almquist Shell (dash) is a POSIX-compliant shell derived from ash. . Since it executes scripts faster than bash, and has fewer library dependencies (making it more robust against software or hardware failures), it is used as the default system shell on Debian systems. Description-md5: 8d4d9c32c6b2b70328f7f774a0cc1248 Homepage: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/dash/ Tag: implemented-in::c, interface::shell, role::program, scope::utility Section: shells Priority: required Filename: pool/main/d/dash/dash_0.5.7-4+b1_amd64.deb Size: 109056 MD5sum: 56256be477fea8bb2ac5985ec478beaf SHA1: b92cd198e563e2c80a7e4d3cb15f52628eecbb47 SHA256: c55031a57ada3fac236f1936eb111e985bea235b86f9767929fec1e552a81aca Package: dash-mksh Version: 6 Architecture: all Essential: yes Origin: WTF Bugs: mailto:[email protected] Maintainer: Thorsten Glaser <[email protected]> Installed-Size: 46 Pre-Depends: mksh (>= 50b) Conflicts: dash Breaks: bash (<< 4.3-9.2) Replaces: dash Provides: dash (= 2147483647:1) Filename: dists/sid/wtf/Pkgs/dash-mksh/dash-mksh_6_all.deb Size: 3238 MD5sum: 65fe404dc0a421db609941b26accfdf8 SHA1: 84305d59bc5a4dfd865bda5e268881b32d1e8942 SHA256: 20f6087837f56cdf07f9154c65c2b508e6fd00bd5d498f95fe5d85645becbaa3 Section: shells Priority: extra Multi-Arch: foreign Homepage: https://www.mirbsd.org/mksh.htm Description: fake dash using mksh This package installs enough to replace the “dash” package from a Debian system, implementing a fake “dash” command by using mksh’s “lksh” executable, which is also normally used as /bin/sh on decent systems. . Before installing this package, you may have to run “sudo dpkg-reconfigure -plow dash” and say “no” to using dash as /bin/sh because otherwise, the dash package fails to remove. . This package Provides, Conflicts, and Replaces dash, which will be removed, with a warning. It does not, however, take up the /bin/sh diversion, which means that the system shell will end up being GNU bash by default. It is strongly urged to run the following commands after installation: . sudo dpkg-divert --package bash --rename --remove /bin/sh; sudo dpkg-divert --local --divert /bin/sh.distrib --add /bin/sh; sudo ln -sf lksh /bin/sh; sudo dpkg-divert --package bash --rename --remove /usr/share/man/man1/sh.1.gz; sudo dpkg-divert --local --divert /usr/share/man/man1/sh.distrib.1.gz /usr/share/man/man1/sh.1.gz; sudo ln -sf lksh.1.gz /usr/share/man/man1/sh.1.gz . Of course, you can also just set the symlink, but upgrade or reinstallation of the “bash” package will trash them. 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