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Re: Bug#741930: reportbug: add current init system information



On Sun, Mar 23, 2014 at 08:41:48AM +0100, Thomas Weber wrote:
> And while we are at it, do we *really* need the information about
> /bin/sh in at least a significant share of today's bug reports?

You probably want it, because a decent number of people use a shell
other than bash or dash as /bin/sh.  For example, one might use
mksh-static because it's statically linked.  Also, someone might try to
use zsh as /bin/sh, which doesn't work (it breaks debconf).

It's much better to have this information up front than to have to guess
about it, especially since many reporters won't think to mention it.

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