On Fri, May 19, 2006 at 10:18:46AM +0200, Michal Čihař wrote: > There are anyway users using dash as /bin/sh right now and broken > packages are bugged, so switching default should not reveal any new bug
The policy says: # If a script requires non-POSIX features from the shell interpreter, the # appropriate shell must be specified in the first line of the script (e.g., # `#!/bin/bash') It's a "must" clause, so the bugs should be RC. > (however there are some not being fixed for a long time). Upgrading their severity to a RC one tends to make the bugs getting fixed _a lot_ faster, and in many cases is the only way to have them fixed at all. Since the lame-but-guaranteed-to-work fix requires nothing but adding two letters, I see little reason to leave them unfixed. Besides, here's an idea: let's make it karma-mandatory for debian-devel readers to have /bin/sh point to foosh for sh!="ba". The more people people use alternate shells, the faster bugs are exposed. And, you can't claim that the whole world uses bash. OpenBSD has pdksh there, {Free,Net}BSD got [d]ash. Whee? -- 1KB // Rule #6: If violence wasn't your last resort, // you failed to resort to enough of it. // - The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Pirates -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]