[Pkg-openssl-devel] Bug#524682: libssl0.9.8: libssl uses unnecessarily /bin/bash in its installation scripts

[Stefan Monnier]

Package: libssl0.9.8
Version: 0.9.8g-16
Severity: normal

As the title explains, the installationn scripts use #!/bin/bash whereas
it seems they don't use any bashism, so they should just use #!/bin/sh

Debian works surprisingly well on very small systems where bash might
not be installed (preferring dash, for example), so I think it's important
to try and make sure we don't add gratuitous dependencies like this one.


        Stefan


-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'oldstable'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-686-bigmem (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_CH.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_CH.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages libssl0.9.8 depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]  1.5.26            Debian configuration management sy
ii  libc6                  2.9-7             GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  zlib1g                 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-13 compression library - runtime

libssl0.9.8 recommends no packages.

libssl0.9.8 suggests no packages.

-- debconf information excluded