Hi Stefano,
you must have missed my followup to Manoj.
On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 18:35 +0200, you wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 02:04:51PM +0200, Siggy Brentrup wrote:
> > > > My question is: will it ever happen that I may safely leave
> > > > /bin/sh -> dash
> > > Been there. Done that. Had no problems.
>
> Been there too. Done that too. Had no problems as well.
> > I'm not sure about it because there were lots of other problems to
> > solve when I upgraded my SGI Indy r5k that ran a sid from '04, I
> Well, you asked for some feedback and you got some positive. I can
> just re-state that positive feedback. I'm writing to you from an
> debian/unstable machine which I use daily, and on which I switched to
> dash about 6 months ago. Since then I've had not a single problem
> ... at the point that when this discussion fired up again I had to
> check my /bin/sh to be sure that I actually changed the link back
> then.
Iirc the problems must have been in pre-etch or etch maintainer scripts
and I worked around them by pointing /bin/sh to bash. I guess nobody
wants reports from that dist-upgrade.
> If your '03/'04 memories are different, then apparently we managed to
> fix quite a lot of bugs since then :-)
You conviniently didn't cite me not counting removed bashisms :)
Style and length of discussions w/o a consensus seem to be still
the same.
> Please give it another try and report any issue you find.
I did so half an hour before you sent your message :)
Be assured I'll report any issue I happen to run over.
Anyway, many thanks for your confirmation
Siggy
ps: While I was writing this the Indy is building openssh to check
whether -fPIC broke ssh & friends on mips. Same procedure with
postfix will follow, 2 packages I had to downgrade for a usable
sid.
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