Re: dash bug which is affecting release goal
Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote:
>
> On Sun, 2008-02-10 at 18:12 -0800, Mike Bird wrote:
>
>> This applies to everything from tarballs of packages which are not yet
>> in Debian to the dozens of tiny custom scripts that everyone has for
>> backups or nagios extensions or adding users or emptying cameras etc etc.
>
> Yes, that's right.
>
> I think the idea of making dash the default /bin/sh is sure to be a
> disaster. But I have no power in that regard. I can only hope I'm
> wrong.
FYI Ubuntu already made the switch some time ago and they have all of the
packages from unstable + some more.
By filling bug reports I try to reduce the impact of making the move that in
theory should be more than safe (except for two or three known bugs on
dash).
>
> Thomas
Cheers,
Raphael Geissert
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