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mksh package

Please merge mksh 38.3-1 (universe) from Debian unstable (main)

Bug #385887 reported by Thorsten Glaser on 2009-06-11

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	mksh (Ubuntu)	Fix Released	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: mksh

There is a new upstream version in Debian which fixes some of the things addressed
in my last debdiff (LP #381332) and a few more ways to crash mksh, that’s why I am
proposing an update to the latest sid version.

The attached debdiff contains the patches still necessary on Ubuntu Karmic:

• dietlibc produces unusable binaries on powerpc and sparc ⇒ skip it there

• mksh should not be installed as /bin/sh on Ubuntu due to bugs in the init scripts
  (dashisms probably; should be reviewed for Karmic though, unless it’s Ubuntu
  policy that only dash be allowed /bin/sh, in which case debconf dash/sh should
  be hardcoded to true)

• The gcc used in Karmic at the moment chokes on “-fwhole-program --combine”
(see LP #352475 – fixed in gcc-snapshots though…)

I would kindly request this upload be sponsored (I am both mksh upstream author
and Debian package maintainer, and also had the last upload of mksh sponsored).

Related branches

lp:ubuntu/karmic/mksh

Revision history for this message

Thorsten Glaser (mirabilos) wrote on 2009-06-11:

debdiff from sid to karmic Edit (2.5 KiB, text/plain)

Adding attachment now because the upload form field didn’t appear
in the initial submission dialogue.

James Westby (james-w) on 2009-06-12

summary:

- Please sync mksh 38.3-1 (universe) from Debian unstable (main)
+ Please merge mksh 38.3-1 (universe) from Debian unstable (main)

Revision history for this message

Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2009-06-12:

This bug was fixed in the package mksh - 38.3-1ubuntu1

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mksh (38.3-1ubuntu1) karmic; urgency=low

  * Merge from Debian unstable (LP: #385887). Remaining Ubuntu changes:
    - disable debconf mksh/sh
    - do not use -combine for build
    - skip dietlibc on powerpc and sparc (LP: #381332)

mksh (38.3-1) unstable; urgency=low

  * New upstream version R38c; complete ChangeLog:
    - [tg] Fix regression tests on OSes insisting on a shebang (Cygwin)
    - [Sean Boudreau] QNX 6.4.2 ed(1) is said to have the bugs fixed
    - [tg] Build.sh bugfixes: -DMKSH_BINSHREDUCED can also be given
      without -DMKSH_SMALL; allow HAVE_REALPATH=x and HAVE_REVOKE=x in
      the environment to re-enable these even if -DMKSH_SMALL disables
      them by default, like mknod already did
    - [tg] -DMKSH_ASSUME_UTF8=0 skips the environment checks, like
      -DMKSH_ASSUME_UTF8=1, but disables the utf8-mode
    - [tg] Apply some more KNF – style(9) – to the source; clean it up
      and further optimise for small size
    - [OpenBSD] Fix segfaults caused by missing check for end of input
      in the tokeniser on “let --” and other input
    - [OpenBSD] Make Vi editing mode ^W behave like Emacs mode’s
    - [tg] If no killpg(3) is avaiable, use kill(2) and hope it works
    - [tg] -DMKSH_NO_LIMITS skips trying to build the ulimit code
  * debian/rules: use DEB_BUILD_ARCH, not DEB_HOST_ARCH, to determine
    if dietlibc should be excluded on certain architectures where it
    is known to fail