Bug#764401: O: mksh -- MirBSD Korn Shell
Package: wnpp
Severity: normal
I intend to orphan the mksh package.
The package description is:
mksh is the successor of the Public Domain Korn shell (pdksh),
a Bourne/POSIX compatible shell which is largely similar to the
original AT&T Korn Shell (ksh88/ksh93).
It includes bug fixes and feature improvements, in order to produce a
modern, robust shell good for interactive and especially script use.
mksh has UTF-8 support (in string operations and the Emacs editing
mode). The code has been cleaned up and simplified, bugs fixed,
standards compliance added, and several enhancements (for extended
compatibility to other modern shells, as well as a couple of its
own) are available.
This shell is Debian Policy 10.4 compliant and may be used as /bin/sh
on Debian systems (the /bin/lksh binary should be used for this), and
as rescue and initrd shell (especially the /bin/mksh-static binary).
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The mksh-static binary is a version of mksh, linked against klibc or
dietlibc (if they exist for that Debian architecture and are usable)
and optimised for small code size, for example for use on initrd or
initramfs images, installation or rescue systems, or /bin/sh on slow
architectures.
It omits some leaf features to be even smaller.
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The lksh binary is a script shell based on mksh intended to run old
ksh88 and pdksh scripts, but not for interactive use. When used as
/bin/sh it follows POSIX most closely.
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A sample ~/.mkshrc is included in /usr/share/doc/mksh/examples and
provided as /etc/mkshrc conffile, which is sourced by another file
/etc/skel/.mkshrc users are recommended to copy into their home.
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This is the WTF Edition with slightly differing defaults: ed will
be installed via a dependency; same for jupp which is used as the
default EDITOR and VISUAL; the locale has UTF-8, Queen’s English
LC_MESSAGES, metric LC_MEASUREMENT and ISO A4 paper; more sane or
MirBSD-ish defaults. Bug reports go directly to the developer.
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