On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 10:58:02AM +0200, Kurt Roeckx <k...@roeckx.be> wrote: > On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 06:04:13PM +0200, Raphael Geissert wrote: > > Hello everybody, > > > > This is a follow up to my previous thread, with a slightly different > > proposal. > > > > What actually needs to be done is: > > * Make dash essential, make it divert the current /bin/sh symlink by > > default, > > make another essential package depend on dash. Prompt the user before > > diverting on interactive upgrades. > > Is there a reason why we're not using the alternatives system for > this and let both bash and dash set that up, and then have dash's > priority lower than bash?
Because the alternatives system can leave dangling symlinks in various cases. And guess what happens when /bin/sh is a dangling symlink. Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
