Fair enough. But note that I'm only suggesting that this limitation (installation scripts should depend on a more limited set of utilities) would apply to debs required to make system bootable and complete installation. So I don't think there are many packages that would need to be changed (grep bin/bash /var/lib/dpkg/info), and changes should be trivial.
I'm currently in a process of building a minimal Ubuntu, because I want some available Ubuntu packages, and also want easy maintaining so having a non-broken installation is a priority, but disk space is also at premium. And I have to say, ubuntu-minimal is not *that* minimal... Though I'm more irked at having to have perl installed (for debconf). Though having a really minimal minimal installation would be helpful for installers and live CDs too, not just embedded type PCs. But this is wish list stuff, I agree. 2009/11/24 Felix Zielcke <fziel...@z-51.de>: > Am Dienstag, den 24.11.2009, 07:37 +0000 schrieb Ari Hyttinen: >> Public bug reported: >> >> Binary package hint: grub2 >> >> Package installation scripts use #!/bin/bash. >> Therefore package should pre-depend on bash, I assume? >> >> Simple fix: add bash as pre-dependency to this. >> >> Better fix, something that would be good for all packages: >> Installation >> scripts of essential packages should not depend on bash, dash should >> be >> enough! >> > > I'm not that familiar with the Ubuntu procedures so I can't really speak > for Ubuntu. > But in my karmic chroot bash is still essential and so according to > debian-policy which mostly applies as ubuntu-policy too AFAIK, it would > be wrong to depend on it. > If a Pre-Depends really would be needed for shell scripts then I think > this would be a real nightmare, > So IMO nothing needs to be changed at all. > Just wishlist to remove the bash dependency at all, but I don't think we > ever do this in Debian. > > -- > Felix Zielcke > Proud Debian Maintainer and GNU GRUB developer > > -- > Missing dependency to bash > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/487456 > You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber > of the bug. > > Status in “grub2” package in Ubuntu: New > > Bug description: > Binary package hint: grub2 > > Package installation scripts use #!/bin/bash. > Therefore package should pre-depend on bash, I assume? > > Simple fix: add bash as pre-dependency to this. > > Better fix, something that would be good for all packages: Installation > scripts of essential packages should not depend on bash, dash should be > enough! > -- Missing dependency to bash https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/487456 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
