Package: dash Version: 0.5.5.1-5 Severity: serious Hi,
recently dash gained support for LINENO (see #540685). This made many other package FTBFS, see e.g. #582037, #582876, #581884 and #582565. A change that makes so many packages FTBFS makes release management hard (or rather impossible), so we need to find a way how these package don't FTBFS at the current point in time. Of course, technically spoken, these packages are all buggy. However, as sort of work around, I would like to ask you to remove this feature from dash in unstable again. Re the long term perspectives, Jakub Wilk has contacted Lucas Nussbaum about testing all our packages in unstable and see which are affected by this bug, and then filling bugs as appropriate. Once we know how many packages are affected, we then can encourage people to fix the bugs with their next uploads. As soon as the number of affected packages is acceptable, we then can turn on LINENO on dash again. Otherwise this is now directly negativly affecting all of our ongoing and planned transitions. Of course, uploading an version of dash with LINENO to experimental would be appreciated, so that we can continue to check the affected packages. The other alternative to removing LINENO-support would be to make sure that /bin/sh points to bash in the buildd chroots - nothing I would like to. (This bug is "serious", because this needs the release team attention. If you disagree with the proposal above, please don't lower the severity but instead reassign it to buildd.d.o so that we can change /bin/sh in the buildd chroots to bash. Thanks.) Andi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
