On Wed, 29 Jul 2009 13:00:13 +0200, Felix Zielcke wrote: > Am Mittwoch, den 29.07.2009, 02:25 +0200 schrieb Vincent Danjean: > > Hi, > > > > Since a few days, on a stable machine (with stable, testing and > > unstable sources for apt but APT::Default-Release set to "stable"), > > "apt-get dist-upgrade" wants to install dash. > > Can someone explain me why ? Is it due to the fact that dash is > > essential in unstable ? > > I assume it is. > I thought I read somewhere that the reason why bash started to depend on > dash would be that apt doestn't pull in new essential packages. Though > on IRC I was told it does that already for a long time. > > So if you don't want dash installed to be on a system which mainly uses > stable you have to remove unstable from sources.list > > But I think dash doestn't hurt, it's small and I use it as /bin/sh since > a year or so without problems.
i think the real issue here is that getting dash pushed onto your stable system is a somewhat unwelcome surprise (not that it is necessarily harmful). it will certainly cause some concern for certain security-conscious users since it is not coming from a point release or DSA update, which may lead to paranoia of malicious activity. perhaps an announcement should be made to state that this action is expected and ok. mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
