On 27/06/2024 01:16, Ilya Kazakevich wrote:
My intention was to understand if decisions about dash are still
valid, not to tell Debian to switch back to bash of course.
I am almost sure there are lengthy threads on Ubuntu and Debian mailing
lists. Perhaps summaries are deeply buried. I was not interested in it,
so I have in my notes just a couple of links related to transition to dash
https://askubuntu.com/questions/976485/what-is-the-point-of-sh-being-linked-to-dash
Another benefit of dash is that it only relies on libc (the core system
library) whereas bash also relies on terminal support libraries (it
can't start without them, even to run a script); this means that dash
has a better chance to keep working on a broken system.
2017-11-14 23:48:23Z
It may be realistic to get the dash bug fixed in next Debian release
even without a new dash version. Try that the patch does not break any
tests and file Debian and Ubuntu bugs.
Perhaps I have read some discussion of shell behavior that might be
caused by this bug.
