On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 10:54:15AM +0000, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > brian m. carlson dixit: > > >I found the problem. Something about debconf does not work well with > >mksh-static as /bin/sh. Reassigning. > > Which version? This *might* be #619947 which I’ve not yet > fixed in stale due to… reluctance of having to explain > everything to the SRM with an unclear outcome (if it were > clear that they would accept it, sure, but so…)
Whatever's in sid. In this particular case, 40.9.20120630-5.
> When running with mksh as /bin/sh it’s really usually
> necessary to use the latest version. I tried to post the
> minimum version to the mksh package page, but the site
> wouldn’t accept my mails (or rather, it accepted them
> but the info would never show up).
I'm happy to test with a newer version if you have an amd64 package or a
new version appears in sid.
> If you’re running the version from stale, can you please
^^^^^
I'm sure that wasn't intentional, but it certainly was amusing.
> retry with the one from squeeze-backports? Also, if you
> think it useful, would you be willing to argue for an
> upload to squeeze-updates(IIRC) to fix it?
All my machines run sid, including my server, so stable is mostly
irrelevant for me. However, if you can fix the problem for squeeze, I'd
definitely support it. I suspect I'm not the only one running mksh as
/bin/sh.
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