Anthony Towns wrote: > On Sat, Aug 28, 1999 at 12:22:37PM +0200, Richard Braakman wrote: > > Frankly, I think this whole process is too risky for the benefit gained, > > certainly too much risk for a non-maintainer upload, and that we shouldn't > > do it with current tools. > > Do note that changing the preinst to a binary can be cleanly separated > from manipulating /bin/sh in the postinst, and that a binary preinst > means that bash can be removed and reinstalled successfully, which was > what Apt was trying to do when everything died (bash has an implicit > pre-dependency on itself).
Indeed, I specifically referred to the manipulation of /bin/sh. I will downgrade the bugs involved. Richard Braakman
