Re: Moving bash from essential/required to important?
On 05/04/11 04:52, Russ Allbery wrote:
> dash doesn't support $LINENO, which is why it's not detected by Autoconf.
> The reason why it doesn't support $LINENO (it's intentional; we had a
> patch to add it that was then removed) is that the configure.ac files of
> many, many packages contain bashisms that dash doesn't support. If
> $LINENO support is present in dash, Autoconf considers dash sufficiently
> POSIX to use as the configure shell, and then all those packages FTBFS.
We could do as with binutils-gold. Report bugs with severity important now, make
it a release goal to make dash fully POSIX-compliant (including $LINENO
support), and if the bug count gets low enough in time, do the switch, and
otherwise, do it at the beginning of the next cycle (assuming we've fixed enough
bugs).
Cheers,
Emilio
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