Package: dash
Version: 0.5.7-3
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

The following typescript shows that a shell variable assignment from
"$@" uses "$*" instead,

    $ dash -c ' IFS=:$IFS ; set -- a b c ; echo "$@" ; aa="$@" ; echo "$aa" '
    a b c
    a:b:c

Thanks,
Jeffrey Sheinberg


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.6
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'proposed-updates'), (500, 
'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.16-0.bpo.2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages dash depends on:
ii  debianutils  4.3.2
ii  dpkg         1.16.15
ii  libc6        2.13-38+deb7u4

dash recommends no packages.

dash suggests no packages.

-- debconf information:
* dash/sh: true


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