On Sun, 2008-02-10 at 18:12 -0800, Mike Bird wrote: > On Sun February 10 2008 15:54:36 Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > > Or to follow Colin's suggestion from the policy discussion a few years > > ago, and grant a special exception, carefully crafted, for particular > > shell builtins. I have no objection to that solution. > > As a Debian user rather than a DD I hope that Debian will ensure that > this solution has absolutely no effect on non-Debian scripts which > use #!/bin/sh and (perhaps unconsciously) expect test to work as in bash.
I'm afraid, that the problem here is just that. Debian doesn't promise that /bin/sh is bash. Scripts which need bash are supposed to specify bash. At least, that's the theory. > This applies to everything from tarballs of packages which are not yet > in Debian to the dozens of tiny custom scripts that everyone has for > backups or nagios extensions or adding users or emptying cameras etc etc. Yes, that's right. I think the idea of making dash the default /bin/sh is sure to be a disaster. But I have no power in that regard. I can only hope I'm wrong. Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]