> "Helmut" == Helmut Grohne writes:
Helmut> In bullseye and earlier, I guess it works.
Helmut> If you start with bullseye or earlier, upgrade to bookworm
Helmut> and then to trixie, it continues to work, because the dash
Helmut> maintainer scripts preserve any diversion that
Hi Thorsten,
On Wed, Aug 07, 2024 at 09:59:09AM +, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
> >that the way people tend to use mksh is by adding a local diversion for
>
> Unfortunately not.
>
> The way we have to do it since squeeze, when dash unilaterally broke
> cross-package coordination, is:
>
> dpkg-rec
(Another data point is that there’s versions of mksh with
version numbers larger than what’s in sid around in my own
repo, for those wanting to follow CVS snapshots more closely,
backported to all versions up to sarge, so bookworm users
can very well have mksh packages with a version number that
is
Helmut Grohne dixit:
>that the way people tend to use mksh is by adding a local diversion for
Unfortunately not.
The way we have to do it since squeeze, when dash unilaterally broke
cross-package coordination, is:
dpkg-reconfigure dash ⇒ remove its owning of /bin/sh
(so it reverts to bash)
ln
Hi Thorsten and Russ,
thanks for dissecting the disagreement. Your reply helped me better
understand what Thorsten probably sees as a problem.
On Tue, Aug 06, 2024 at 05:23:35PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Second, you believe the existing migration strategy will not work safely
> for mksh becaus
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