Michael S. Gilbert 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 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. You need to have unstable sources in apt for this to occur. A plain stable (lenny) system will not see that. It is not really a concern for me (the lenny dash that is pulled does not change /bin/sh by default and dash is not a big package). I was just wondering if this behavior was a feature or a bug. And it was also a surprise for me. > perhaps an announcement should be made to state that this action is > expected and ok. Regards, Vincent -- Vincent Danjean GPG key ID 0x9D025E87 vdanj...@debian.org GPG key fingerprint: FC95 08A6 854D DB48 4B9A 8A94 0BF7 7867 9D02 5E87 Unofficial pacakges: http://moais.imag.fr/membres/vincent.danjean/deb.html APT repo: deb http://perso.debian.org/~vdanjean/debian unstable main -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org