Hi. Maybe you are simply surprised by the fact that base-files recently changed from installing a default /root/.bash_profile to installing a default /root/.profile (which is slightly "more POSIX").
I considered several ways to do this. Among them: 1. If ~/.bash_profile exists and ~/.profile does not, move automatically ~/.bash_profile to ~/.profile. 2. If neither ~/.bash_profile or ~/.profile exists, install a default ~/.profile. 3. If neither ~/.bash_profile, ~/.bash_login or ~/.profile exist, install a default ~/.profile. 4. If ~/.profile does not exist, install a default ~/.profile. I chose 4. because it is the simplest solution. bash first looks for .bash_profile, then .bash_login and then .profile, and executes the first one that exists and is readable. Therefore if the user has already a working .bash_profile and base-files installs a default .profile, it will be completely harmless. I could implement 2) or 3) instead, but it is really needed? -- "697b299e5c84f28eb38b37da74759b89" (a truly random sig)
