Hi Andrej, On Wed, Aug 14, 2024 at 09:34:59AM +0200, Andrej Shadura wrote: > Thanks. I’ve reworded the messages to be slightly more user-friendly, what do > you think? > > This update to dash moves /bin/sh to /usr/bin/sh, but your system has a local
As Thorsten pointed out, using an old dash to configure bash as the shell results in a diversion owned by bash and it is possible to keep this diversion. Such a diversion is not called local. How about dropping the word "local"? > diversion of /bin/sh. Since there is no new diversion of the new location I am wondering whether "new location" may confuse users into believing that /bin/sh would now be unavailable. In my wording, I tried to emphasize that the change in location is only a detail of how dpkg looks at it. > /usr/bin/sh, this local diversion will no longer work, making dash the > default shell. > . > To prevent this message from appearing again, remove the local diversion of > /bin/sh. This is factually wrong. With the proposed implementation, the message will only be displayed when upgrading from an aliased dash to a moved dash. In later upgrades, it will not be displayed. Also dpkg-reconfigure will not display it. I don't think there is a way to see it twice. > To continue using the alternative default shell of your choice, create > another > diversion for /usr/bin/sh. Thanks for trying to improve the wording, but I don't think this quite cuts it yet. Helmut
