On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 02:40:37PM +0100, Julien Cristau wrote: > On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 12:57:45 +0000, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > > > sdm (0.4.1-2) unstable; urgency=low > > . > [...] > > * No longer include dash as a dependency; it is included in essential. > > * Add lintian overrides for missing-dep-for-interpreter dash, as dash > > is now essential. > > My understanding was that dash was only in the Essential set as the > default provider of /bin/sh, and that /bin/dash was explicitly *not* > guaranteed to stay in Essential, and thus packages using that need to > keep their dependencies. Did I misunderstand, or is the above change > wrong?
One problem is that Debian lacks a mechanism to prevent the removal of /bin/sh (and also of the root shell) by the packaging system. For example if you set the root shell to zsh-static, an upgrade can remove the shell temporarily. Cheers, -- Bill. <ballo...@debian.org> Imagine a large red swirl here. -- 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/20100626220721.ge23...@yellowpig
