Control: tags -1 moreinfo On 2015-05-27 19:56, Matthias Klose wrote: > Package: lintian > > Bash is still marked as essential while not providing the system shell > anymore. > Before removing this attribute (probably not for the stretch release), > additional build dependencies and dependencies on bash need to be introduced. > > - bash needed for a binary package. that usually means that > /bin/bash is used as a shebang, or bash is used to start > shell scripts. > > - bash needed for the source build. Means, that SHELL is set > in the rules file to /bin/bash, bash is used in any packaging > scripts, or bash is required in the upstream build system. > The former too could be checked by lintian, the latter one > maybe could be checked by the build log checker. > > - adjust the lintian warning, that bash is allowed as a build > dependency and a dependency, while still being essential. > > Reading policy 3.8, I don't see anything which would be needed as a policy > change. > > Matthias > >
I mentioned this to Matthias on IRC - just copying here to everyone is aware of it. I would strongly prefer if this was brought up on debian-devel before we implement this change. I think this change is too important for lintian to be the primary messenger. Matthias agreed on IRC to bring up on d-d first and I have accordingly tagged this bug moreinfo until that happens. Thanks, ~Niels -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
