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When will bash 2.01 be packaged?



Hello,

I just saw this post in comp.os.linux.x. I think this is enough reason to
upgrade bash from 2.00 to 2.01. When will this happen?

Remco

On 16 Jun ,greg@uniques.catnet.com ("Greg DeFreitas") wrote about
     Re: bash upgrade killed Netscape shelling...:
> 
> In article <5ntmua$14o$1@mortimer.deas.org>,
> 	deas@rrz.uni-hamburg.de (Andreas Steffan) writes:
>> 
>> In article <5n63ev$1ng@yuggoth.ucsb.edu>,
>> 	Steven Richman <sr@kamidesign.com> writes:
>>> I just upgraded from Slackware 3.1 to 3.2, and am now running bash
>>> 2.00.0(1). Now, whenever Netscape "sh -c"'s to execute a helper
>>> application (e.g. xanim) I get the following silly parse error:
>>> 
>>> sh: -c: line 1: missing closing ')' for arithmetic expression
>>> sh: -c: line 1: syntax error near unexpected token ';'
>>> sh: -c: line 1: '((xanim /tmp/myfile); rm /tmp/myfile )&'
>>> 
>>> I find it odd that this would have changed...
>> 
>> Configure bash with the --disable-dparen-arithmetic option.
> ...or, upgrade to:
> 
> 04:03 uniques:~/wget$ bash --version
> GNU bash, version 2.01.0(1)-release (i586-pc-linux-gnu)
> Copyright 1996 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> ;-)


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