On 1 August 2010 19:40, Julien Cristau <jcris...@debian.org> wrote: > On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 20:43:12 +0100, Reuben Thomas wrote: > >> I was just wondering why you can't do the following in the short term: >> >> 1. Fix autoconf (all five versions in Debian) to default to using bash >> and only fall back to sh if there is no bash and sh seems to be OK. >> >> 2. Regenerate the affected packages and rebuild, adding bash as a build-dep >> > Because modifying autoconf means screwing up tarballs that are generated > on Debian systems for everyone else.
How would it do that? The only case I can think of in which preferring bash to /bin/sh is where such an old version of bash is installed on a system that it is inferior to /bin/sh for running configure scripts. That sounds pretty unlikely to me. -- http://rrt.sc3d.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
