Bug#1006504: bullseye-pu: package bash/5.1-6~deb11u1

[Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org>]

Hi Julien,

On Sat, Mar 19, 2022 at 06:36:16PM +0100, Julien Cristau wrote:
> Control: tag -1 moreinfo
> 
> On Sat, Feb 26, 2022 at 03:25:09PM +0100, Salvatore Bonaccorso wrote:
> > There was a request in #1003012 to fix an issue in bash corrupting
> > multibyte characters in command substitutions.
> > 
> > While looking at it I'm proposing here instead of only picking the 014
> > patch, to pick up all the changes done since from the bullseye release
> > on top and so proposing a rebuilding of 5.1-6 which was expoed in
> > testing for awhile now. Only change reverted would be the bump of
> > standards version but still including the drop of the pre-wheezy
> > preinst for the "dash-as-sh"-transition.
> > 
> > Attached is the resulting debdiff as proposed with the rebuild.
> > 
> > Matthias, Stable release managers what do you think on the update?
> > 
> I'm unconvinced.  Dropping the preinst seems way out of scope for a
> stable update, as for the other changes it's unclear to me what their
> impact/risk is.

This is why I hoped to see what Matthias thinks.  The alternative
would clearly be to only cherry pick the fix for #1003012 and do
5.1-2+deb11u1 with it. 

Regards,
Salvatore