On Fri, 2010-10-08 at 23:02 -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > Presumably the idea is that before bash is updated, its /bin/sh is > always diverted, so the removal of bash's copy of /bin/sh causes > no harm. > > I don't see why dash's preinst urgently has to be rewritten in C > (though I don't disagree that it's a good thing to do);
The key thing is that if the move to dash-as-default - or an upgrade of dash whilst it is the default shell - fails, that should not leave the system without a working /bin/sh. Having it not be a shell script seems a reasonable why of achieving that. :-) > if /bin/bash > is missing, aren't we in deep trouble anyway? Yes. dash's preinst (in 0.5.5.1-7) currently has a /bin/sh shebang, however. Regards, Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
