Greg Wooledge wrote: ... > 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
did you notice the date? that's some time ago... which might be why it wasn't thought of as a change for now. i vaguely recall this. > I've updated the wiki, so at least we have that much warning for users, > not that many people will read it. songbird