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Re: dash bug which is affecting release goal



Mike Bird <mgb@yosemite.net> writes:

> 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.

So switch your /bin/sh back to bash when the Release Notes tell you about
the change and move on with your life.  That's why it's configurable.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>


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