Package: dash
Version: 0.5.5.1-3
Severity: important
dash doesn't understand the ** exponent operator. This caused some
breakage when moving from bash to dash as suggested by the package
manager as several (non-debian) cronjobs used the feature on their
argument list.
$ bash -c 'echo $((2**16))'
65536
$ dash -c 'echo $((2**16))'
dash: arithmetic expression: expecting primary: "2**16"
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (650, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-x86_64-linode11 (SMP w/4 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 3.2.2 Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii dpkg 1.15.5.5 Debian package management system
ii libc6 2.10.2-2 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
dash recommends no packages.
dash suggests no packages.
-- debconf information:
* dash/sh: true
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