bash: preinst not a script; doesn't begin with #!

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Automatically imported from Debian bug report #263747 http://bugs.debian.org/263747

[Justin Pryzby (justinpryzby-users)]

Of course, bash _is_ /bin/sh. I know this is intentional, maybe this is
accepted?
--
Justin
aptitude install iraf saods9 eclipse xpa sextractor x11iraf wcstools pyraf
http://www.justinpryzby.com/debian/

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Automatically imported from Debian bug report #263747 http://bugs.debian.org/263747

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Message-Id: <E1BsjPZ-0002A8-Nl@andromeda>
Date: Thu, 05 Aug 2004 10:40:05 -0400
From: Justin Pryzby <email address hidden>
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <email address hidden>
Subject: bash: preinst not a script; doesn't begin with #!

Package: bash
Version: 2.05b-15
Severity: serious
Justification: Policy 6.1

/var/lib/dpkg/info/bash.preinst: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), for GNU/Linux 2.2.0, dynamically linked (uses shared libs), stripped

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (101, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.7
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C

Versions of packages bash depends on:
ii base-files 3.1 Debian base system miscellaneous f
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-13 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libncurses5 5.4-4 Shared libraries for terminal hand

-- no debconf information

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

On Thu, Aug 05, 2004 at 10:40:05AM -0400, Justin Pryzby wrote:
> Package: bash
> Version: 2.05b-15
> Severity: serious
> Justification: Policy 6.1
>
>
> /var/lib/dpkg/info/bash.preinst: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), for GNU/Linux 2.2.0, dynamically linked (uses shared libs), stripped

This is not a bug, and should be closed. The section of policy you quote
says:

     These scripts are the files `preinst', `postinst', `prerm' and
     `postrm' in the control area of the package. They must be proper
     executable files; if they are scripts (which is recommended), they
     must start with the usual `#!' convention. They should be readable
     and executable by anyone, and not world-writable.

Being a script is only recommended, not required; and bash is an
exception, with a good reason why it's the way it is.

bash (2.02.1-1.7) unstable; urgency=low

  * Non-maintainer release.
  * Make bash not Pre-Depend on itself. That is, make bash's preinst
    something other than a /bin/sh script; in this case a reasonably
    simple binary.
  * Remove /bin/sh from the .deb, and reinstate it in the postinst if
    it's not already present. Hence make the postinst a /bin/bash script
    instead of a /bin/sh script.

 -- Anthony Towns <email address hidden> Sat, 28 Aug 1999 01:09:08 +1000

Also, before filing RC bugs you might want to check
http://release.debian.org/sarge_rc_policy.txt, as that's currently the
canonical reference.

Cheers,

--
Colin Watson [<email address hidden>]

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Message-ID: <20040805151016.GA8549@andromeda>
Date: Thu, 5 Aug 2004 11:10:16 -0400
From: Justin Pryzby <email address hidden>
To: <email address hidden>
Subject: sh

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Of course, bash _is_ /bin/sh. I know this is intentional, maybe this is
accepted?
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Justin
aptitude install iraf saods9 eclipse xpa sextractor x11iraf wcstools pyraf
http://www.justinpryzby.com/debian/

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[Justin Pryzby (justinpryzby-users)]

Originally I sent this to the wrong bug (262747).
On Thu, Aug 05, 2004 at 12:18:21PM -0400, pryzbyj wrote:
> Bash is essential, so I guess this is accepted (plus its hard to fix:).
> Sorry for the noise.
> Justin

[Matt Zimmerman (mdz)]

NOTABUG

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Message-ID: <email address hidden>
Date: Thu, 5 Aug 2004 17:27:18 +0100
From: Colin Watson <email address hidden>
To: Justin Pryzby <email address hidden>
Cc: <email address hidden>
Subject: Re: bash: preinst not a script; doesn't begin with #!

On Thu, Aug 05, 2004 at 10:40:05AM -0400, Justin Pryzby wrote:
> Package: bash
> Version: 2.05b-15
> Severity: serious
> Justification: Policy 6.1
>
>
> /var/lib/dpkg/info/bash.preinst: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), for GNU/Linux 2.2.0, dynamically linked (uses shared libs), stripped

This is not a bug, and should be closed. The section of policy you quote
says:

     These scripts are the files `preinst', `postinst', `prerm' and
     `postrm' in the control area of the package. They must be proper
     executable files; if they are scripts (which is recommended), they
     must start with the usual `#!' convention. They should be readable
     and executable by anyone, and not world-writable.

Being a script is only recommended, not required; and bash is an
exception, with a good reason why it's the way it is.

bash (2.02.1-1.7) unstable; urgency=low

  * Non-maintainer release.
  * Make bash not Pre-Depend on itself. That is, make bash's preinst
    something other than a /bin/sh script; in this case a reasonably
    simple binary.
  * Remove /bin/sh from the .deb, and reinstate it in the postinst if
    it's not already present. Hence make the postinst a /bin/bash script
    instead of a /bin/sh script.

 -- Anthony Towns <email address hidden> Sat, 28 Aug 1999 01:09:08 +1000

Also, before filing RC bugs you might want to check
http://release.debian.org/sarge_rc_policy.txt, as that's currently the
canonical reference.

Cheers,

--
Colin Watson [<email address hidden>]

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Message-ID: <20040805165221.GB9295@andromeda>
Date: Thu, 5 Aug 2004 12:52:21 -0400
From: Justin Pryzby <email address hidden>
To: <email address hidden>
Subject: Re: bash is essential

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Originally I sent this to the wrong bug (262747).
On Thu, Aug 05, 2004 at 12:18:21PM -0400, pryzbyj wrote:
> Bash is essential, so I guess this is accepted (plus its hard to fix:).
> Sorry for the noise.
> Justin

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