Hi Helmut, Helmut Grohne wrote:
> I am re-closing the bug as the original submitter. > > On Fri, Jun 06, 2014 at 03:57:48PM -0700, Jonathan Nieder wrote: >> Thanks for looking into it. Reopening, lowering severity. (I'm aware >> of at least one user that was relying on this and has been working >> around the lack with every upgrade, and I believe fixing it would be >> good for the maintainability of the package anyway.) > > I've never been able to reproduce this bug. I've tried now in a clean > sid chroot to forcefully remove dash's diversion of /bin/sh, adding a > local one to point /bin/sh at something of my choice and proceeded to > upgrading dash without any issues. Thanks! Sounds good to me; it makes sense to deal with any remaining tech debt as a separate issue.

