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



On Du, 23 mar 14, 17:03:00, brian m. carlson wrote:
> 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).

Wouldn't it make more sense to have that information conditionally, i.e. 
only if /bin/sh is *not* dash?

Kind regards,
Andrei
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