package: src:debianutils
severity: serious
version: 4.11.2
tag: patch
debianutil's add-shell script uses awk, but awk is not an
Essential:yes package. For systems where awk is not yet installed
(chroots), installation of dash will currently fail since it's
postinst calls add-shell from debianutils.
A simple fix seems possible, just change add-shell to use cat, which
is in coreutils (Essential:yes). Proposed update attached.
Best wishes,
Mike
--- debianutils-4.11.2/add-shell 2020-05-22 20:00:40.000000000 -0400
+++ debianutils-4.11.3/add-shell 2021-02-07 21:47:27.000000000 -0500
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
}
trap cleanup EXIT
-if ! awk '{print}' "$file" > "$tmpfile"
+if ! cat "$file" > "$tmpfile"
then
cat 1>&2 <<EOF
Either another instance of $0 is running, or it was previously interrupted.
