pdksh transitional package going away...

[Thorsten Glaser]

Andreas Henriksson dixit:

I intend to drop the iproute transitional packages in Jessie+1.

This message is here to give all 68 packages depending/recommending/suggesting

Ah, good idea, to remind people again.

I intend to drop the pdksh transitional package in between the
time Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (I assume 17 April 2014) is released and
the freeze for Jessie will be enacted, with the assumption there
is some time in between these two.

The reason for this is that, by then, the pdksh transitional
package will have been in a stable version in both distros.

In Debian, there are only two packages depending, recommending,
suggesting or build-depending on pdksh right now:


Christoph Egger christ...@debian.org
   graphviz (U)

David Claughton d...@eclecticdave.com
   graphviz

Sebastian Harl tok...@debian.org
   graphviz (U)

Ulrich Dangel m...@spamt.net
   shunit2


Furthermore, one package has an alternating dependency with
pdksh already lower priorised than mksh, and ksh93 has a
versioned conflict on pdksh which thus is not an issue.

I would like to ask the aforementioned maintainers to transition
to depending/build-depending on mksh instead and try to use the
mksh binary for their scripts, and the lksh binary otherwise (i.e.
if they are scrips requiring the legacy behaviour). I will assist
with adjusting scripts, of course; please contact me privately or
the miros-mksh (at) mirbsd (point) org mailing list (no subscription
needed).

Thanks,
//mirabilos
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Re: pdksh transitional package going away...

[Jonathan Dowland]

On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 08:41:15AM +, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
 In Debian, there are only two packages depending, recommending,
 suggesting or build-depending on pdksh right now:
…
graphviz (U)
shunit2

These surprised me, so I took a peek.

In shunit2's case, ksh is optionally used as part of the test suite.
Removing the dependency did not cause FTBFS.

In graphviz's case, it seems there's three implementations of
/usr/bin/dotty and lneato in the source; a sh, a ksh and a bash. None
are run (afaics) in the build phase and the sh ones are installed in the
binary. (graphviz seems to FTBFS in a clean pbuilder sid chroot atm, as
as aside)

 I would like to ask the aforementioned maintainers to transition
 to depending/build-depending on mksh instead

It seems simply dropping pdksh as a build-dependency is sufficient.


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