On debian-devel, Thomas Quinot <thomas@Cuivre.FR.EU.ORG> wrote: > Le 1999-05-29, Edward Betts écrivait : > > > > 34138 bash: bug doesn't work anymore > > This is the same problem as #35214. > > Although the problem is still present in bash, it should be noted > that bug has integrated a workaround (as of 3.1.8). Does that mean the bug can be closed, or should it just have its severity reduced from important? > > Ulf Jaenicke-Roessler <ujr@physik.phy.tu-dresden.de> the submitter of this bug > > feels that bash should not clobber peoples /bin/sh if it is another file or a > > link to another file. > > Why not manage /bin/sh using alternatives? This would seem very natural. This was discuses in the bug report log. It was felt that there might be problems if alternatives failed, ending up with no /bin/sh is pretty grave. I suppose that at least update-alternatives is a perl script so it would not have problems if the /bin/sh symlink disappeared. -- I consume, therefore I am
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