On Thu, Aug 08, 2024 at 08:32:40PM +, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
> Helmut Grohne dixit:
> >dh_movetousr has nothing to do with protective diversions. It does not
> >add nor remove diversions nor does it change any. All it changes is
> >locations of files in the data.tar of a .deb. All of the protec
Helmut Grohne dixit:
>> Maybe the protective diversions also protect against this problem as well
>> as the problem of moved files? I unfortunately failed to spot where the
>> protective diversions were added in dh_movetouser (if that even is the
>> right place to be looking), so I'm fairly sure
Thorsten Glaser writes:
> There is absolutely no reason to force files to move, given they are now
> aliased already *anyway*.
I think this is the relevant Policy point. I pretty strongly disagree
with this, and I think we also have a consensus on the Policy list that,
no, we need to force all
Helmut Grohne writes:
> What changed over time is that we first added diversions for
> transitioning from bash to dash and later removed that mechanism as the
> transition is complete and the desire to choose your /bin/sh is not as
> prevalent as it used to be (mainly because choice of /bin/sh no
Hi Sam,
I see this is getting a bit off-topic and reommend that you spin off a
discussion on d-devel if this really matters to you.
On Wed, Aug 07, 2024 at 04:27:01PM -0600, Sam Hartman wrote:
> > "Helmut" == Helmut Grohne writes:
>
> Helmut> In bullseye and earlier, I guess it works.
>
> "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)
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