Re: dash bug which is affecting release goal

[Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>]

Mike Bird wrote:
> Debian should ensure that millions of Debian users around
> the world who have written and tested millions of tiny shell
> scripts with no thought to the possibility that /bin/sh may
> one day become not-bash will not suffer millions of hours
> of down time (or worse - bad data) due to a Debian change.

Hmmm. To be honest up till now I was assuming that the change of the default
would only affect _new_ installs and that existing systems being upgraded
from Etch to Lenny would be unaffected.

Was that an incorrect assumption?

Cheers,
FJP