Package: metview Version: 4.7.0-1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer,
While this package depends on ksh | mksh | pdksh | zsh it seems to use bash and any posix compliant shell, always provided by any sane debian system. $ dpkg -L metview | xargs file | grep script /usr/bin/metview: Bourne-Again shell script, ASCII text executable /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/metview/MarsOdbWrapper: Bourne-Again shell script, ASCII text executable /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/metview/MarsTiggeWrapper: Bourne-Again shell script, ASCII text executable /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/metview/compile: Bourne-Again shell script, ASCII text executable /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/metview/document_macros.pl: Perl script text executable /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/metview/dump: Bourne-Again shell script, ASCII text executable /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/metview/generate_video: Bourne-Again shell script, ASCII text executable /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/metview/logrun: Bourne-Again shell script, ASCII text executable /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/metview/metview-mail: Bourne-Again shell script, ASCII text executable /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/metview/metview_create_user_dir: Bourne-Again shell script, ASCII text executable /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/metview/metview_help: POSIX shell script, ASCII text executable /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/metview/metview_post_install_tests.sh: POSIX shell script, ASCII text executable, with very long lines /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/metview/mv_compress: Bourne-Again shell script, ASCII text executable /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/metview/mv_flexpart_run: Bourne-Again shell script, ASCII text executable /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/metview/mv_flextra_prep: Bourne-Again shell script, ASCII text executable /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/metview/mv_flextra_prep.mv: a /usr/bin/metview script, ASCII text executable /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/metview/mv_flextra_run: Bourne-Again shell script, ASCII text executable /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/metview/mv_grib_dump: Bourne-Again shell script, ASCII text executable /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/metview/mv_mail: Bourne-Again shell script, ASCII text executable /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/metview/mv_mars_catalog.py: Python script, ASCII text executable /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/metview/mv_obstat: Bourne-Again shell script, ASCII text executable /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/metview/mv_odbsql: Bourne-Again shell script, ASCII text executable /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/metview/mv_rttov_run: Bourne-Again shell script, ASCII text executable /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/metview/mv_scm_run: Bourne-Again shell script, ASCII text executable /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/metview/mv_scm_vis.mv: a /usr/bin/metview script, ASCII text executable /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/metview/mv_uniquename: Bourne-Again shell script, ASCII text executable /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/metview/mv_vapor_gui: Bourne-Again shell script, ASCII text executable /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/metview/mv_vapor_prep.mv: a /usr/bin/magml script, ASCII text executable /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/metview/mvrun: Bourne-Again shell script, ASCII text executable /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/metview/mvrun_c: Bourne-Again shell script, ASCII text executable /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/metview/mvrun_lnx: Bourne-Again shell script, ASCII text executable /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/metview/mvusage: Bourne-Again shell script, ASCII text executable /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/metview/select_mars_config: Bourne-Again shell script, ASCII text executable /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/metview/set_mars_env: Bourne-Again shell script, ASCII text executable Please consider dropping those shell dependencies. Best Regards, Manolo Díaz -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 4.8.5 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=es_ES.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=es_ES.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages metview depends on: pn ksh | mksh | pdksh | zsh <none> ii libc6 2.24-5 ii libcurl3-gnutls 7.50.1-1 ii libemos0d 2:4.4.3-1 ii libgcc1 1:6.2.0-10 ii libgdbm3 1.8.3-14 ii libgeotiff2 1.4.2-2+b1 ii libgfortran3 6.2.0-10 ii libgrib-api0 1.17.0-1 ii libmagplus3v5 2.29.4-1 ii libnetcdf-c++4 4.2-6 ii libnetcdf11 1:4.4.1-2 ii libqt5core5a 5.6.1+dfsg-3+b1 ii libqt5gui5 5.6.1+dfsg-3+b1 ii libqt5network5 5.6.1+dfsg-3+b1 ii libqt5printsupport5 5.6.1+dfsg-3+b1 ii libqt5widgets5 5.6.1+dfsg-3+b1 ii libqt5xml5 5.6.1+dfsg-3+b1 ii libqt5xmlpatterns5 5.6.1-2 ii libstdc++6 6.2.0-10 ii libterralib3 4.3.0+dfsg.2-9 ii metview-data 4.7.0-1 ii python 2.7.11-2 ii x11-utils 7.7+3 Versions of packages metview recommends: pn magics++ <none> metview suggests no packages. -- no debconf information