Vagrant Cascadian <vagr...@freegeek.org> writes: > On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 02:40:37PM +0100, Julien Cristau wrote:
>> My understanding was that dash was only in the Essential set as the >> default provider of /bin/sh, and that /bin/dash was explicitly *not* >> guaranteed to stay in Essential, and thus packages using that need to >> keep their dependencies. Did I misunderstand, or is the above change >> wrong? > well, lintian warns either way you do it, hence the override: > http://bugs.debian.org/587209 > some clarity on how to handle that would be nice, yes. Yes, we need to fix that one way or the other. I think it's moderately unlikely that we're going to manage to keep dash from being treated as essential even if we say that it's only essential for the /bin/sh functionality. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/871vbty72o....@windlord.stanford.edu
