Your message dated Tue, 26 Jan 2016 16:24:23 +0000 (UTC) with message-id <[email protected]> and subject line Re: Bug#812709: cvs-switchroot requires /bin/mksh but it is not installed has caused the Debian Bug report #812709, regarding cvs-switchroot requires /bin/mksh but it is not installed to be marked as done.
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--- Begin Message ---Package: cvs Version: 2:1.12.13+real-15 Severity: normal The cvs-switchroot program is a script but its interpeter is not installed. I assume that a dependency which should exist is simply missing. ~$ cvs-switchroot bash: /usr/bin/cvs-switchroot: /bin/mksh: bad interpreter: No such file or directory ~$ type cvs-switchroot cvs-switchroot is hashed (/usr/bin/cvs-switchroot) ~$ head -n 1 /usr/bin/cvs-switchroot #!/bin/mksh ~$ ls -l /bin/mksh /bin/ls: cannot access /bin/mksh: No such file or directory -- System Information: Debian Release: 8.2 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_IE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_IE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages cvs depends on: ii adduser 3.113+nmu3 ii dpkg 1.17.26 ii install-info 5.2.0.dfsg.1-6 ii libbsd0 0.7.0-2 ii libc6 2.19-18+deb8u1 ii libgssapi-krb5-2 1.12.1+dfsg-19+deb8u1 ii libkrb5-3 1.12.1+dfsg-19+deb8u1 ii zlib1g 1:1.2.8.dfsg-2+b1 Versions of packages cvs recommends: ii openssh-client 1:6.7p1-5 Versions of packages cvs suggests: pn mksh <none> ii rcs 5.9.3-1 -- no debconf information
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--- Begin Message ---James Youngman dixit: >The cvs-switchroot program is a script but its interpeter is not >installed. I assume that a dependency which should exist is simply >missing. No, it’s a contributed script which is of only some, limited, use and only bundled with cvs because not doing that would be even more awkward. mksh was originally in Recommends for this, but even that was deemed too much by several people, so it’s now in Suggests (cf. #631110). That’s enough to satisfy using it as interpreter for a not normally used script, and even lintian agrees. bye, //mirabilos -- „Cool, /usr/share/doc/mksh/examples/uhr.gz ist ja ein Grund, mksh auf jedem System zu installieren.“ -- XTaran auf der OpenRheinRuhr, ganz begeistert (EN: “[…]uhr.gz is a reason to install mksh on every system.”)
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