Hi, Apologies for the late reply on this. For some reason I thought it had been replied to earlier but realised it hadn't whilst tidying up my mail.
On Sun, 2010-09-19 at 16:44 +0200, Helmut Grohne wrote: > * #546528: This seems to be "only" a policy violation and I have not > found any reports about practical problems. If this is not to be > fixed, it would be an option to tag this squeeze-ignore. The bug log has an alternative suggestion regarding just making the preinst use a /bin/bash shebang, on the basis that bash is still (and probably always will be) essential. This seems so simple that I'm sure there must be a catch somewhere; I just haven't worked out what it is yet. :-) > * #538822: Must be addressed in some way. Since it only hits upgrading > users that followed README.Debian, those users could be told to > revert that change via release-notes. I'd prefer if we could find a solution that DTRT here without requiring intervention from users. Noting the manual solution in the release notes wouldn't be the end of the world, however. > * #582952: This one involves either fixing a lot of packages or > shipping a non-POSIX shell by default. Both of which are bad and > probably breaking a lot of unrelated stuff. Shipping a non-POSIX dash > seems to be slightly better to me as this hasn't bothered us so > far[1]. LINENO isn't part of the SUSv3 Shell Command Language as specified in Policy. The description of the variable therein explicitly states that it "specifies the effects of the variable only for systems supporting the User Portability Utilities option" and Policy does not require UP to be supported. In any case, this issue is resolved in squeeze and sid already. Regards, Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-release-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1288369637.30602.718.ca...@hathi.jungle.funky-badger.org
