On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 03:20:12PM -0500, Raphael Geissert wrote: > On 15 April 2010 12:58, Gerrit Pape <p...@smarden.org> wrote: > > Raphael sent a mail rudimentarily stating how to proceed. I must > > confess, I don't really understand the plan, or why it should be done > > this way. But I might miss information since I was not available when > > the /bin/sh transition was discussed, planned, and initiated. > > It would be great if we could discuss that, but for that I need to > know what isn't clear, etc.
Hi Raphael, problem is, I'm not sure that I'll find enough free time to properly discuss and work on this, sorry. I was hoping there're other contributors appearing, so I can learn from their questions, and jump in when time permits. > I started to prepare the test packages but haven't had time to setup > the multiple test environments. > Also, I'm aware you've prepared a new version that is blocked by the > package-uses-local-diversions auto-reject. Lintian's detection can be > workarounded by rewriting the preinst script in c (I think that one of > the bug reports has a user submission doing that), which is required > to make dash the only package providing the /bin/sh symlink. > > I tried to clone your git repository but it 404s, so I can't check > what other changes you've made so far and see if there's any conflict. > Is your repository available anywhere else? It's there, you can't access it with a web browser, but with git clone http://smarden.org/git/dash.git/ > > If there's no progress > > within the next weeks, I most probably will rollback the changes, and > > possibly simply change the debconf question's default from no to yes. > > Please don't. I know I have not been very active on that front, but > I'm now going to dedicate more time to it. Great, thank you. If you want, I'm available to review patches, and apply them or acknowledge your upload. Regards, Gerrit. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100428210837.11555.qm...@b585ea598a5fd2.315fe32.mid.smarden.org
