[Virtual-pkg-base-maintainers] Bug#763152: Please do not handle bash as essential anymore

[Klaus Ethgen]

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Package: base
Severity: wishlist

Hi,

Please devote bash from essential state to just any normal shell state.
There is no need to have it in a that prominent position. Especially
with regard to the recent security problems.

We have dash in place for ages now. So there is no need for bash either.
For the moment there are still some scripts that uses bash for no need.
That would not change until bash is devoted to lower precedence. That
scripts that really needs to use bash should mention that in the
dependencies.

I hope I found the right pseudo package for this bug. I even be not sure
if it should be wishlist or normal (From my point of view it is wishlist
but a very important wish).

- -- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (800, 'unstable'), (110, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.15.10 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE, LC_CTYPE=de_DE (charmap=ISO-8859-1) (ignored: LC_ALL set to de_DE)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

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Klaus Ethgen                              http://www.ethgen.ch/
pub  4096R/4E20AF1C 2011-05-16   Klaus Ethgen <Klaus at Ethgen.de>
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