Package: dash Version: 0.5.4-12 Severity: normal
Manual page SH(1) BSD General Commands Manual SH(1) NAME sh - command interpreter (shell) SUGGESTIONS 1. The header seem incorrect, because the 1) package is labelled "dash" and the 2) executable is labelled "dash" 3) upstream calls it dash[1], so reading manual is expected to contain: DASH(1) BSD General Commands Manual DASH(1) ======= 2. Likewise for the SYNOPSIS and DESCRIPTION: dash NAME dash - command interpreter (shell) DESCRIPTION dash is the standard command interpreter for the system. The current ver‐ sion of dash is in the process of being changed to conform with the POSIX ... 3. This seems like out of place in Debian: ... We expect POSIX conformance by the time 4.4 BSD is released. Perhaps it should read: ... Dash was originally developed for the NetBSD. 4. History. The [1] Developer site reads: DASH is a POSIX-compliant implementation of /bin/sh that aims to be as small as possible. DASH is a direct descendant of the NetBSD version of ash (the Almquist SHell). I ported it to Linux in early 1997. It was renamed to DASH in 2002. This would be a good to mention in the HISTORY section. [1] http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/dash/ -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_DK.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_DK.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages dash depends on: ii libc6 2.7-13 GNU C Library: Shared libraries dash recommends no packages. dash suggests no packages. -- debconf information excluded -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]