Hi, On Tue, 1 Jun 2021 13:35:53 +0200 Helmut Grohne <hel...@subdivi.de> wrote: > While #958083 asks for removing bash.preinst, this bug asks for even less: > The bash.preinst contains code for upgrading a bash that did contain /bin/sh > to a current one. Since at least wheezy, bash did not contain /bin/sh, so > this code can quite surely go away without trouble. > > I'm attaching a patch to makes just this code go away. The deleted code > is practically dead for years. Removing it should be uncontroversial and > after it is removed, it becomes easier to reason about #958083 which > asks to remove the rest of the preinst. > > Essentially, this bug splits #958083 into a removing the majority of code > that should be uncontroversial to remove.
since this is blocking our work on adding DPKG_ROOT support to the essential package set and since bash is among the 10 remaining source packages that we still have to patch, I would like to NMU bash with the patch provided by Helmut. If you think this is inappropriate, please speak up. Otherwise, my plan is to upload to DELAYED/10 in two weeks time. I'll send another mail to this bug with the debdiff once I have the NMU ready. Thanks! cheers, josch
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