Bug#540512: ping bug 540512: dash upgrade breaks mksh-as-/bin/sh

2013-09-24 Thread Thorsten Glaser
On Fri, 30 Aug 2013, Paul Gevers wrote: > [Ping to all who have an idea on how to solve this bug] Goswin von Brederlow had a proposal to fix this using system-shell-* packages that provide a system-shell virtual essential package. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2013/05/msg00976.html is no

Bug#540512: ping bug 540512: dash upgrade breaks mksh-as-/bin/sh

2013-08-30 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi, [Ping to all who have an idea on how to solve this bug] Wouldn't it be a great time now to try and fix this bug properly, before we land in jessie freeze and see that we have this bug still open? Paul signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Bug#538822: Bug#540512: dash upgrade breaks mksh-as-/bin/sh

2009-08-10 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Luk Claes dixit: >I thought Guillem was going to talk to you to see what the best way was Hm, haven't received any yet... >to make sure mksh could provide /bin/sh (I've put him in Cc). Might want to consider ksh93 too. It also attempts to follow POSIX closely, I even had Dave Korn in in the rec

Bug#540512: Bug#538822: Bug#540512: dash upgrade breaks mksh-as-/bin/sh

2009-08-10 Thread Luk Claes
Thorsten Glaser wrote: > Sven Joachim dixit: > >> Do you have an idea how to implement that? Managing /bin/sh through the >> alternatives system does not seem very prudent. > > No, diversions are fine for that, I'd think. But I'm not a > debconf expert. I thought Guillem was going to talk to yo

Bug#538822: Bug#540512: dash upgrade breaks mksh-as-/bin/sh

2009-08-10 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Sven Joachim dixit: >Do you have an idea how to implement that? Managing /bin/sh through the >alternatives system does not seem very prudent. No, diversions are fine for that, I'd think. But I'm not a debconf expert. //mirabilos -- “It is inappropriate to require that a time represented as se

Bug#538822: Bug#540512: dash upgrade breaks mksh-as-/bin/sh

2009-08-10 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2009-08-10 15:19 +0200, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > Sven Joachim dixit: > >>Because dash now always sets up a diversion, and you cannot have more >>than one package divert the same file (see #273093). > > Ah, great. So there now is *no* way to tell dash to not divert it? Apparently not. But even

Processed (with 2 errors): Re: Bug#540512: dash upgrade breaks mksh-as-/bin/sh (fwd)

2009-08-10 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: > block 539538 by 540512 Bug #539538 [mksh] mksh "set -o nounset" affects $@ Was blocked by: 538822 519165 1 Added blocking bug(s) 540512 > block 535970 by 540512 Bug #535970 [mksh] bashism(?) in initscript Was blocked by: 538822 1 Added blocking bu

Processed (with 4 errors): Re: Bug#540512: dash upgrade breaks mksh-as-/bin/sh

2009-08-10 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: > block 539538 by 538822 Bug #539538 [mksh] mksh "set -o nounset" affects $@ Was blocked by: 519165 Added blocking bug(s) 538822 and 1 Failed to set blocking bugs of 539538: Unable to get file lock while trying to add blocker '1'. > block 535970 b

Bug#540512: dash upgrade breaks mksh-as-/bin/sh

2009-08-10 Thread Thorsten Glaser
block 539538 by 538822 block 535970 by 538822 block 532343 by 538822 block 534788 by 538822 thanks Sven Joachim dixit: >Because dash now always sets up a diversion, and you cannot have more >than one package divert the same file (see #273093). Ah, great. So there now is *no* way to tell dash to

Processed: Re: Bug#540512: dash upgrade breaks mksh-as-/bin/sh

2009-08-10 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: > severity 540512 grave Bug #540512 [dash] dash upgrade breaks mksh-as-/bin/sh Severity set to 'grave' from 'normal' > merge 538822 540512 Bug#538822: dash: fails to install overwriting files from bash Bug#540512: dash u