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Package: dash
Version: 0.5.5.1-2.3
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch
Dash has the following description:
> Description: POSIX-compliant shell
> The Debian Almquist Shell (dash) is a lightweight POSIX-compliant shell
> derived from ash.
> .
> It can be usefully installed as /bin/sh (because it executes scripts
> faster than bash), or as the default shell for the superuser. It
> depends on fewer libraries than bash, and is therefore less likely to
> be affected by an upgrade problem or a disk failure. It is also
> useful for checking the POSIX compliance of scripts.
That was a good summary of its status in Lenny (itself an update
from the version in Etch), but it doesn't really fit its current
status as an Essential package. My suggestion would be:
Description: lightweight standard shell
The Debian Almquist Shell (dash) is a POSIX-compliant shell derived
from ash.
.
Since it executes scripts faster than bash, and has fewer library
dependencies (making it more robust against software or hardware
failures), it is used as the default system shell on Debian systems.
(But obviously, feel free to throw out my version if you've got
better ideas.)
By the way, while I'm looking at the control file: ash was already a
transition package in Sarge, and Woody-to-Squeeze upgrades aren't
supported, so isn't it about time it was retired?
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diff -ur dash-0.5.5.1.pristine/debian/control dash-0.5.5.1/debian/control
--- dash-0.5.5.1.pristine/debian/control 2009-09-12 22:19:11.000000000 +0100
+++ dash-0.5.5.1/debian/control 2009-09-12 22:30:40.000000000 +0100
@@ -13,15 +13,13 @@
Priority: required
Pre-Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}
Depends: debianutils (>= 2.15), dpkg (>= 1.15.0)
-Description: POSIX-compliant shell
- The Debian Almquist Shell (dash) is a lightweight POSIX-compliant shell
- derived from ash.
+Description: lightweight standard shell
+ The Debian Almquist Shell (dash) is a POSIX-compliant shell derived
+ from ash.
.
- It can be usefully installed as /bin/sh (because it executes scripts
- faster than bash), or as the default shell for the superuser. It
- depends on fewer libraries than bash, and is therefore less likely to
- be affected by an upgrade problem or a disk failure. It is also
- useful for checking the POSIX compliance of scripts.
+ Since it executes scripts faster than bash, and has fewer library
+ dependencies (making it more robust against software or hardware
+ failures), it is used as the default system shell on Debian systems.
Package: ash
Architecture: all
--- End Message ---
--- Begin Message ---
Source: dash
Source-Version: 0.5.5.1-3
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
dash, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:
ash_0.5.5.1-3_all.deb
to pool/main/d/dash/ash_0.5.5.1-3_all.deb
dash_0.5.5.1-3.diff.gz
to pool/main/d/dash/dash_0.5.5.1-3.diff.gz
dash_0.5.5.1-3.dsc
to pool/main/d/dash/dash_0.5.5.1-3.dsc
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
have further comments please address them to [email protected],
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
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Gerrit Pape <[email protected]> (supplier of updated dash package)
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Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2009 14:22:37 +0000
Source: dash
Binary: dash ash
Architecture: all source
Version: 0.5.5.1-3
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Gerrit Pape <[email protected]>
Changed-By: Gerrit Pape <[email protected]>
Description:
ash - compatibility package for dash
dash - POSIX-compliant shell
Closes: 538682 539070 539189 539363 539630 540221 540631 540707 546458
Changes:
dash (0.5.5.1-3) unstable; urgency=low
.
* Thanks Luk Claes for NUMs (closes: #538682).
* debian/NEWS: rename to debian/dash.NEWS.Debian.
* debian/rules: don't explicitely install dash's NEWS file,
debian/implicit takes care of that.
* debian/dash.NEWS.Debian: when upgrading existing installations,
the system shell will not be changed automatically (closes:
#539363).
* debian/control: update long description (thx Justin B Rye; closes:
#546458).
* debian/po/sv.po: [INTL:sv] Swedish strings for dash debconf (thx
Martin Bagge; closes: #539070).
* debian/po/ru.po: [INTL:ru] Russian debconf templates translation
update (thx Yuri Kozlov; closes: #539189).
* debian/po/fr.po: fr.po: French program translation (thx julien
patriarca; closes: #539630).
* debian/po/de.po: [INTL:de] updated German debconf translation (thx
Helge Kreutzmann; closes: #540221).
* debian/po/it.po: [INTL:it] Italian translation (thx Luca Monducci;
closes: #540631).
* debian/po/es.po: [INTL:es] Spanish debconf template translation for
dash (closes: #540707).
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