On Tue, 5 Mar 2024 at 02:59, Greg Wooledge <g...@wooledge.org> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 05, 2024 at 11:24:11AM +0900, John Crawley wrote:
> > ^ worked as a negator in dash character classes up to Bullseye though, so > > something has changed recently. That's what my web searching failed to > > find... > > It looks like dash doesn't have up-to-date documentation on its changes. > There's a ChangeLog file in the upstream Git repository's top level > directory[1] (shipped as changelog.gz in the Debian package), but the most > recent entry in it is dated 2014-11-17. > > We might *guess* that this change was made to make dash more strict > about POSIX minimalism (removing extensions), but without documentation > we can't do more than guess about motives. > > [1] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/dash/dash.git/tree/ A bit more info: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1028002 Previous discussion on debian-user: https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2023/04/msg00559.html
