Hi, On Monday 11 February 2008 11:48, Mike Bird wrote: > > > On *production* Debian systems, saving 30 seconds in a boot which > > > may occur once a year for a kernel security update is not worth a > > > single broken script, nor a single failed backup, nor a single lost > > > data bit. > > Since you're talking about *production* systems, “stable” case above, > > so “not a problem”. > Release notes do not offset the millions of person-hours needed to review > and maybe-rewrite and retest the millions of tiny shell scripts that have > been written and tested by millions of Debian users with no thought to the > possible consequences of subsequent changes to /bin/sh. That might be right (or not) but it's irrelevant here. The proposed change is to make dash the default /bin/sh for *new* installations, not to make this change on upgrades from stable etch to stable lenny. And if you bring new servers in production using a new release, without testing for breakage, well... regards, Holger
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