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Re: "dpkg-reconfigure" dash no longer works




On 10/06/2023 16:08, S M wrote:
On Sat, Jun 10, 2023 at 02:12:14PM +0100, Darac Marjal wrote:

Is command-line editing part of POSIX, then? Are you suggesting that dash is
missing some bit of POSIX compliance? That's possible.
Command-line editing in vi-mode is defined by POSIX, but it's not mandatory as
far as I know.

OK, this looks like Bug #561663. If I read that bug correctly, the intention IS that dash should support command-line editing (in your case, you'd invoke it with -V for vi-style editing. The maintainer claimed the block was closed, but then they re-opened it two days later.

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