tag 537990 +pending
thanks
Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
I just tested a d-i installation of unstable, and debootstrap failed
because dash was unable to install as it should. dash is now a
dependency of bash, and this was thus a fatal error. The problem seem
to be that the /etc/shells file is missing when dash is being
configured. I'm making this a RC bug, as it would make it impossible
to install debian if it stay this way until Squeeze is released.
The dash package calls add-shells, which is part of the debianutils
package, and this script seem unable to handle a missing /etc/shells.
I suspect the correct fix is to list debianutils as a dependency of
dash, to make sure it create /etc/shells before add-shells is called
by dash.
The reason of course being that dash enters (pseudo) Essential a bit
before we anticipated it to be. We are currently preparing the move
which will also take care of some other issues that could happen when
dash becomes the default system shell.
Cheers
Luk
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