Bug#538822: Bug#540512: dash upgrade breaks mksh-as-/bin/sh
On 2009-08-10 15:19 +0200, Thorsten Glaser wrote: Sven Joachim dixit: Because dash now always sets up a diversion, and you cannot have more than one package divert the same file (see #273093). Ah, great. So there now is *no* way to tell dash to not divert it? Apparently not. But even if there were, it would trigger the file conflict in #538822 because *both dash and bash* ship /bin/sh now. AFAICS the only possibility to have another package take over /bin/sh is to remove it from either dash or bash. We *really* need to have something like a shared/binsh debconf, like the debconf docs show for window-manager. Do you have an idea how to implement that? Managing /bin/sh through the alternatives system does not seem very prudent. Regards, Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#538822: Bug#540512: dash upgrade breaks mksh-as-/bin/sh
Sven Joachim dixit: Do you have an idea how to implement that? Managing /bin/sh through the alternatives system does not seem very prudent. No, diversions are fine for that, I'd think. But I'm not a debconf expert. //mirabilos -- “It is inappropriate to require that a time represented as seconds since the Epoch precisely represent the number of seconds between the referenced time and the Epoch.” -- IEEE Std 1003.1b-1993 (POSIX) Section B.2.2.2 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#540512: Bug#538822: Bug#540512: dash upgrade breaks mksh-as-/bin/sh
Thorsten Glaser wrote: Sven Joachim dixit: Do you have an idea how to implement that? Managing /bin/sh through the alternatives system does not seem very prudent. No, diversions are fine for that, I'd think. But I'm not a debconf expert. I thought Guillem was going to talk to you to see what the best way was to make sure mksh could provide /bin/sh (I've put him in Cc). Guillem: do you think the only sane way out is to not have bash ship /bin/sh? If so, how would bash preferably be adapted? Cheers Luk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#538822: Bug#540512: dash upgrade breaks mksh-as-/bin/sh
Luk Claes dixit: I thought Guillem was going to talk to you to see what the best way was Hm, haven't received any yet... to make sure mksh could provide /bin/sh (I've put him in Cc). Might want to consider ksh93 too. It also attempts to follow POSIX closely, I even had Dave Korn in in the recent set -u vs $@ discussion. Greets, //mirabilos -- Sometimes they [people] care too much: pretty printers [and syntax highligh- ting, d.A.] mechanically produce pretty output that accentuates irrelevant detail in the program, which is as sensible as putting all the prepositions in English text in bold font. -- Rob Pike in Notes on Programming in C -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
