Russ Allbery wrote: > I think it's moderately unlikely that we're going to manage to keep dash > from being treated as essential even if we say that it's only essential > for the /bin/sh functionality.
Based on [1], [2] and [3], there's no single package that ships a /bin/dash script but doesn't depend on dash. If we exclude dash from the *depends-on- essential-* checks I don't think it will be too difficult to preserve the current status. The next target would be to make packages using /bin/bash to start depending on bash, but I can see that taking years (but excluding bash from the same checks as dash would give the hint that it is fine to depend on it.) [1] http://lintian.debian.org/tags/missing-dep-for-interpreter.html [2] http://lintian.debian.org/tags/build-depends-on-essential-package- without-using-version.html [3] http://lintian.debian.org/tags/depends-on-essential-package-without- using-version.html Cheers, -- Raphael Geissert - Debian Developer www.debian.org - get.debian.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/i06l76$7u...@dough.gmane.org
