Your message dated Fri, 03 Jan 2025 14:44:17 +0000
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and subject line Bug#558989: fixed in dash 0.5.12-10
has caused the Debian Bug report #558989,
regarding dash reverses the established logic of test -nt -ot (and maybe others)
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Package: dash
Version: 0.5.5.1-3
Severity: grave
Justification: doing the opposite of what people asked for could do _anything_
Dash should not implement -nt at all if it wants to be strict about
things that aren't POSIX. If it is going to implement non standard
things from other sources, then it absolutely should not be inventing
entirely new behaviours for them from whole cloth, let alone completely
reversing the logic of existing long established code.
Doing that could easily introduce any of the scenarios defined for a
'critical' bug, but I don't want to get all handwavy about the severity,
I just think this is an RC issue that should be fixed for squeeze (but
it's not really a -policy thing else I'd have probably just made it
'serious').
$ bash
$ test "/bin/ls" -nt "no-such-file" || echo "oh ffs :("
$ /usr/bin/test "/bin/ls" -nt "no-such-file" || echo "oh ffs :("
$ dash
$ test "/bin/ls" -nt "no-such-file" || echo "oh ffs :("
oh ffs :(
Now imagine that's checking something important to the integrity of
the system ...
Please fix this. Even if it's just to remove -nt entirely and have
such scripts _obviously_ break rather than silently doing the exact
opposite of what they always have in the past. People who've had
systems running Debian for years deserve more from us than this.
Thanks,
Ron
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.31-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages dash depends on:
ii debianutils 3.2.2 Miscellaneous utilities specific t
hi dpkg 1.15.3.1 Debian package management system
ii libc6 2.10.1-7 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
dash recommends no packages.
dash suggests no packages.
-- debconf information excluded
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--- Begin Message ---
Source: dash
Source-Version: 0.5.12-10
Done: Andrej Shadura <[email protected]>
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.
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.
Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Andrej Shadura <[email protected]> (supplier of updated dash package)
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Date: Fri, 03 Jan 2025 15:13:44 +0100
Source: dash
Architecture: source
Version: 0.5.12-10
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Andrej Shadura <[email protected]>
Changed-By: Andrej Shadura <[email protected]>
Closes: 558989 1078130
Changes:
dash (0.5.12-10) unstable; urgency=medium
.
[ Dominik Viererbe ]
* d/t/mmdebstrap: remove unused parsing of distribution from changelog
* Incorporate Ubuntu DEP-17 /usr merge changes:
[ Julian Andres Klode ]
- debian/shells.d/dash: move files to /usr
- debian/tests/smoke: add /bin/dash link tests
.
[ Helmut Grohne ]
* Warn the user if /bin/sh is ineffectively diverted (DEP-17)
(Closes: #1078130)
.
[ Andrej Shadura ]
* Apply upstream patch to align test -nt and -ot with POSIX.1-2024
(Closes: #558989)
* Apply upstream patch to fix here-doc handling.
* Add Belarusian and Slovak translations for debconf templates.
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