On Fri, Jun 09, 2023 at 07:20:29AM -0700, Kushal Kumaran wrote: > >From the comments on > https://salsa.debian.org/debian/dash/-/commit/c322a1c9fc6be11d7eb4439407c0a398aba8bbb7, > this is intentional and permanent. /bin/sh pointing to bash is no > longer supported.
Huh. Well, that's rather important, isn't it? The package maintainers seem to have forgotten to TELL us this, at least in the NEWS.Debian.gz file, which still says only: unicorn:/usr/share/doc/dash$ zless NEWS.Debian.gz dash (0.5.5.1-2.1) unstable; urgency=low * The default system shell (/bin/sh) has been changed to dash for new installations. When upgrading existing installations, the system shell will not be changed automatically. * One can see what the current default system shell on this machine is by running 'readlink /bin/sh'. * Change it by running 'dpkg-reconfigure dash'. -- Luk Claes <l...@debian.org> Wed, 22 Jul 2009 17:23:20 +0200 I've updated the wiki, so at least we have that much warning for users, not that many people will read it.