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Package: bash
Version: 3.1-1
Severity: minor
$ dpkg -L bash |grep /bin/sh
/bin/sh
As /bin/sh is an admin-configurable symbolic link, it should not be
included in the bash package. If the package were to be removed then
/bin/sh would be removed even if it pointed to another shell. (This
bug could only be a problem if bash could be removed, which would
only be the case if there were some drop-in replacement for bash,
which case I believe to be counterfactual at present. Hence the
Severity: minor.)
Should /bin/sh be handled using the alternatives mechanism?
--
Thomas Hood
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think about it ... update-alternatives is a shell script.
the /bin/sh symlink is handled by dpkg-divert, see the dash package
for an example.
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