On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 09:02:21AM +0000, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > Steve Langasek dixit: > >(For values of "permanently" that include "we now have two implementations > >of sh in Essential, because no one has done the work to let us get rid of > >bash".) > Maybe because the offered alternative sucks so much. You are totally, completely, 100% missing the point. We can't remove bash from Essential because packages are silently using /bin/bash without depending on bash, because they've been *told not to*. This is not about your hobby horse issue of whose /bin/sh is better, it's about the fact that once an interface makes its way into Essential, we have a very hard time removing it. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ slangasek@ubuntu.com vorlon@debian.org
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