On Fri, Jun 09, 2023 at 08:20:52PM +0200, didier gaumet wrote: > Le 09/06/2023 à 15:38, S M a écrit : > > I noticed on a newly installed system with Debian 12 that dpkg-reconfigure > > no longer allows to switch the /bin/sh symlink from dash to bash. This is > > apparently intentional as per the following:
> This is explained in the wiki: > - dash is the Debian default non-interactive shell for speed and compliance > to standard (setup of /bin/sh) > - bash is the Debian default interactive shell for ease of use (setup of > /etc/adduser.conf) Nothing you wrote here is incorrect, but none of it explains the policy change that has occurred. I won't even say it's a bad policy change. It makes at least a little bit of sense... ... but it should not have come as a *surprise* 2 days before the release. ... and it should not be missing from the dash package's NEWS file. > https://wiki.debian.org/Shell Another wiki page that I'll need to look at and possibly edit. Thanks.