Steve McIntyre dixit:
>we no longer have a signed
>shim. Signed GRUB and fwupd-efi packages will also be removed soon.
Might want to note this on amd64 as well, for those
64-bit systems with 32-bit EFI.
bye,
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Jonathan Nieder dixit:
>What does
>
> dpkg-divert --listpackage /usr/share/man/man1/sh.1.gz
Ah, it’s mksh (of course)…
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you introduced a merge commit│ % g rebase -i HEAD^^
sorry, no idea and rebasing just fscked │ Segmentation
should have cloned into a clean
Jonathan Nieder dixit:
>In this case you can probably remove the diversions with
>"dpkg-reconfigure mksh" before installing dash again.
Yeah. Afterwards I just changed the symlink manually…
>Yes, this is a regression. If you have time to test or review, I'd be
>glad to put up a rough dash .dsc
Adam D. Barratt dixit:
>I put together a proposed patch (attached) for the Release Notes,
Looks good to me, thanks. (Indeed, I should have known the issue,
but forgot that these were its symptoms.)
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Package: release-notes
Severity: normal
Hi,
Robert asked me to replace pdksh with its successor mksh
in time for the wheezy release, and we’d like it to be
gone in jessie. Right now, pdksh is a transitional package,
and the upgrade might need some sysadmin and/or user effort:
① The sysadmin need
Hi,
I’d like to do a ping for mksh unblocking and the release notes
entry, just so they don’t accidentally forgotten.
In case someone already has these on their radar, please sorry
for the noise.
bye,
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FWIW, I'm quite impressed with mksh interactively. I thought it was much
*much*
Julien Cristau dixit:
>That sounds appropriate for a pdksh NEWS.Debian file, not the release
>notes?
I don’t think so – the change should really be done before
the new pdksh package is installed, since it’ll immediately
begin affecting users.
>We can add pdksh to the list of packages that are go
Julien Cristau dixit:
>If mksh is not a drop-in replacement then I'm not sure it's a good idea
>to have it provide a transitional package. Might as well leave the old
>pdksh alone so there's no functionality loss...
mksh contains an lksh binary which is a drop-in for scripts.
The only thing it’s
Joost van Baal-Ilić dixit:
>I propose this text instead:
>
>---
>
>
> Pdksh to mksh transition
^
I’d not capitalise here, as it’s a name/“trade”mark.
If you really must, I guess PDksh would make more sense.
>
>The Public Domain Korn Shell ( role="package">pdksh)
>pac
Vincent McIntyre dixit:
>- pdksh is no longer maintained (it has last seen active
>- development in 1999).
>+ pdksh is no longer maintained (it has not been
>+ actively developed since 1999).
sure
>- symlink. This compatibility binary behaves a bit more like the
>traditiona
also don't like enabling JavaScript in
> Because I use lynx as browser.
+1
-- Octavio Alvarez, me and ⡍⠁⠗⠊⠕ (Mario Lang) on debian-develFix typo.
Signed-off-by: Thorsten Glaser
Index: manuals/trunk/release-
On Sun, 2 Sep 2018, Emmanuel Bourg wrote:
> > I was surprised to know that gnu java which at one point was a
> > high-priority project was deprecated within gcc
>
> When Sun released Java under the GPL and started the OpenJDK project it
> lost its raison d'être.
One of them.
GCJ is more portabl
On Wed, 18 Jun 2025, Simon McVittie wrote:
> On Thu, 27 Jun 2024 at 12:16:06 +0000, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
>> Might want to note this on amd64 as well, for those
>> 64-bit systems with 32-bit EFI.
>
> I think this is the only thing that might possibly benefit from
>
Package: release-notes
Severity: important
X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-init-divers...@chiark.greenend.org.uk
Several packages have dropped cronjobs in favour of systemd timers
or somesuch, despite these not being covered by the GR about init
scripts.
The release notes should contain a complete list of a
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