On Sun, Feb 10, 2008 at 10:19:15PM -0500, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > On Sun, 2008-02-10 at 21:10 -0600, Raphael Geissert wrote: > > > On Sun, 2008-02-10 at 18:12 -0800, Mike Bird wrote:
> > >> This applies to everything from tarballs of packages which are not yet > > >> in Debian to the dozens of tiny custom scripts that everyone has for > > >> backups or nagios extensions or adding users or emptying cameras etc etc. > > > Yes, that's right. > > > I think the idea of making dash the default /bin/sh is sure to be a > > > disaster. But I have no power in that regard. I can only hope I'm > > > wrong. > > FYI Ubuntu already made the switch some time ago and they have all of the > > packages from unstable + some more. > > By filling bug reports I try to reduce the impact of making the move that in > > theory should be more than safe (except for two or three known bugs on > > dash). > I think you're ignoring Mike Bird's concern. What about custom scripts, > non-Debian things, user-written scripts, etc.? So we should also never upgrade /usr/bin/python, /usr/bin/perl, or /usr/bin/gcc to point at a new upstream version because users may have local programs that assume particular non-standard behavior from these programs, right? Otherwise, why should we be fretting over users who assume that /bin/sh == /bin/bash, when we've never promised anything of the sort? -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
