Bug#705806: marked as done (release-notes: Small clarification for the mksh transition section)
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Package: release-notes
Severity: normal
Tags: patch
While reading the release-notes, bits of the pdksh→mksh transition were
not too clear as it's not obvious what that “lksh” is. Just adding the
command name when presenting the transtional package seems to work.
Index: issues.dbk
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--- issues.dbk (revision 9749)
+++ issues.dbk (working copy)
@@ -269,8 +269,9 @@
Shell and has been kept up to date with the POSIX standard on the shell.
In &debian; &releasename;,
<systemitem role="package">pdksh</systemitem> is a transitional package
- using a variant of <systemitem role="package">mksh</systemitem> built with
- special compatibility options to provide a <command>pdksh</command> binary
+ using <command>lksh</command>, a variant of
+ <systemitem role="package">mksh</systemitem> built with special
+ compatibility options to provide a <command>pdksh</command> binary
symlink. This compatibility binary behaves more like the traditional
Public Domain Korn Shell than the current <command>mksh</command>. However
as it contains behaviour-changing bugfixes it is not a pure drop-in
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.0
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 3.5-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=ca_ES.UTF-8@valencia, LC_CTYPE=ca_ES.UTF-8@valencia (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
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--- Begin Message ---
On Sat, 2013-04-20 at 13:05 +0200, Jordi Mallach wrote:
> While reading the release-notes, bits of the pdksh→mksh transition were
> not too clear as it's not obvious what that “lksh” is. Just adding the
> command name when presenting the transtional package seems to work.
Thanks; committed as r9772.
Regards,
Adam
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