Re: Bug#619820: either bash or dash should be enough

2011-03-28 Thread Carsten Hey
* Russ Allbery [2011-03-28 17:20 -0700]: > Practically speaking, I think bash is going to have to remain essential. > There are innumerable scripts, package build rules, maintainer scripts, > and other things in Debian referencing /bin/bash without declaring a > dependency, ... I agree. > So, I t

Re: Bug#619820: either bash or dash should be enough

2011-03-28 Thread Russ Allbery
Ben Finney writes: > Luk Claes writes: >> Well, by making dash the default *system* shell. bash is still the >> default user shell. > So, does that mean ‘bash’ and ‘dash’ should both remain essential? Practically speaking, I think bash is going to have to remain essential. There are innumerabl

Re: Bug#619820: either bash or dash should be enough

2011-03-28 Thread Ben Finney
Luk Claes writes: > On 03/28/2011 12:05 PM, Holger Levsen wrote: > > On Sonntag, 27. März 2011, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > >> # which packages are essential affects the entire distribution > >> reassign 619820 general > > > > For the distro we have solved^wdecided this by making dash the default

Re: Bug#619820: either bash or dash should be enough

2011-03-28 Thread Luk Claes
On 03/28/2011 12:05 PM, Holger Levsen wrote: > reassign 619820 dash,bash > block 619820 by 540512 > thanks > > On Sonntag, 27. März 2011, Jonathan Nieder wrote: >> # which packages are essential affects the entire distribution >> reassign 619820 general > > For the distro we have solved^wdecided

Processed: Re: either bash or dash should be enough

2011-03-28 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: > reassign 619820 dash,bash Bug #619820 [general] either bash or dash should be enough Bug reassigned from package 'general' to 'dash,bash'. > block 619820 by 540512 Bug #619820 [dash,bash] either bash or dash should be

Bug#619820: either bash or dash should be enough

2011-03-28 Thread Holger Levsen
reassign 619820 dash,bash block 619820 by 540512 thanks On Sonntag, 27. März 2011, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > # which packages are essential affects the entire distribution > reassign 619820 general For the distro we have solved^wdecided this by making dash the default shell. cheers, Hol

Processed: Re: either bash or dash should be enough

2011-03-27 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: > # which packages are essential affects the entire distribution > reassign 619820 general Bug #619820 [dash] either bash or dash should be enough Bug reassigned from package 'dash' to 'general'. Bug No longer marked

Re: either bash or dash should be enough

2011-03-27 Thread Jonathan Nieder
# which packages are essential affects the entire distribution reassign 619820 general quit Hi, Harald Dunkel wrote: > I cannot remove dash nor bash. Both are marked as essential packages. > One shell should be enough for a minimal system. That's a good point. Raphael, do you remember why dash