On Fri, Jun 09 2023 at 01:38:25 PM, S M <mythrowy...@hotmail.com> wrote: > Good day. > > 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: > > https://launchpad.net/debian/+source/dash/0.5.11+git20210903+057cd650a4ed-4 > > I couldn't find any additional context or rationale. I would like to > know if this is going to be a permanent change. Debian currently > disables command line editing in dash builds, so that makes it > unusable as an interactive shell. > > Thank you very much for everything.
>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. Change your login shell to bash, if that's what you want, using chsh. -- regards, kushal
