I haven't had a chance to figure this out yet, but I thought it prudent to report.
I've been testing sarge with the i18n patch to coreutils 4.5.9 forward-ported to 5.0 and applied against coreutils 5.0-5. You can see my patch at: http://hackers.progeny.com/~licquia/lsb/patches/sarge/coreutils_5.0-5/ Anyway, after installing coreutils with this patch, this happens: --- [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ head -1 /etc/profile head: `-1' option is obsolete; use `-n 1' Try `head --help' for more information. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ head -n 1 /etc/profile # /etc/profile: system-wide .profile file for the Bourne shell (sh(1)) [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ tail -1 /etc/profile tail: `-1' option is obsolete; use `-n 1' Try `tail --help' for more information. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ tail -n 1 /etc/profile umask 022 --- Downgrading to coreutils 5.0-5 as delivered in sarge causes the problem to go away. Needless to say, this change wreaks havoc on the system. The openssl update failed to install; I'm sure it's not the only package to use head or tail in a package script. At least dch and dpkg-buildpackage are also broken.
