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Re: /bin/sh (was Re: jessie release goals)



On Tue, 2013-05-14 at 08:59 +0000, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
> Helmut Grohne <helmut <at> subdivi.de> writes:
> 
> > What are the benefits of using shells other than dash for /bin/sh? (as
> 
> Why does dash get special treatment, anyway? It was “suddenly“ in
> Debian after having been used in Ubuntu, but… there never was an
> evaluation of shells.
[...]

Because it's our very own tiny shell:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debian_Almquist_shell

Ben.

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Ben Hutchings
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