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  • Bug#267041: hinfo: missing dependency on bash

    From martin f krafft@1:229/2 to All on Fri Aug 20 13:40:08 2004
    From: [email protected]

    Package: hinfo
    Version: 1.01-3
    Severity: normal

    The postinst script uses /bin/bash, but hinfo does not depend on
    bash. The preferred way to deal with this is to make sure the
    postinst does not use bashisms and can thus use and POSIX sh.
    Otherwise, please declare a dependency on bash.

    Thanks,

    -- System Information:
    Debian Release: 3.1
    APT prefers testing
    APT policy: (600, 'testing'), (98, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686)
    Kernel: Linux 2.6.7-1-k7
    Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8

    Versions of packages hinfo depends on:
    ii adduser 3.59 Add and remove users and groups
    ii debconf 1.4.30 Debian configuration management sy ii debianutils 2.8.4 Miscellaneous utilities specific t ii libnet-dns-perl 0.46-2 Perform DNS queries from a Perl sc ii perl 5.8.4-2 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction ii ucf 1.07 Update Configuration File: preserv

    -- debconf information excluded

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  • From Blars Blarson@1:229/2 to martin f krafft on Sat Aug 21 07:00:11 2004
    From: [email protected]

    package hinfo
    severity 267041 wishlist
    retitle 267041 change postinst to use /bin/sh
    thanks

    On Fri, Aug 20, 2004 at 01:11:38PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote:
    The postinst script uses /bin/bash, but hinfo does not depend on
    bash.

    bash is an essential package, an unversioned dependancy on it would be
    a bug. (debian policy 3.5)

    However, the postinst code that depended on bash has already been
    eliminated, and I will change postint to use /bin/sh in the next
    update. I'm leaving this bug open as wishlist as a reminder.


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  • From martin f krafft@1:229/2 to All on Sat Aug 21 10:10:11 2004
    From: [email protected]

    bash is an essential package, an unversioned dependancy on it would be
    a bug. (debian policy 3.5)

    Mh. weird. Over an issue over at xfree86-common, I thought we had
    concluded that it is not essential. But it is priority essential...

    Sorry for the noise.

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