reassign 549011 safe-rm retitle 549011 safe-rm provides a conflicting and less reliable rm command severity 549011 normal thanks
On Wed, 30 Sep 2009, Didier Raboud wrote: > I had safe-rm installed and perl broke (#548848). dpkg went unuseable because > it was using /usr/bin/rm from safe-rm, broken because of broken perl. > > So either safe-rm should be taken out of system PATH or dpkg should hardcode > the usage of /bin/rm (which this bugreport is about). It's never wise to have the same command available in multiples */bin dirs. Hardcoding locations is going backwards. So it's definitely not something that's going to be solved on dpkg's side. I consider this a design problem of safe-rm so reassigning it there. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
