@sparr: "The Ubuntu devs have done a far greater good here than with any other distro I have used in the past."
Then you and the ubuntimati don't have a real world clue between you all. I manage dozens of servers with 100s of shell scripts each, some dating back 10 years, half authored by me, half not. I have a choice, do I edit all these scripts (1000s!!!), do I self maintain a hacked /bin/sh link to /bin/bash, or, do I assign my future to another distro that I can trust not to put me in this position again? I'm glad I don't manage a really large server farm currently on dapper and needing to move to apache2.2. What really gets me is the attitude of people like you that don't care about the pain this move inflicts on however many *ubuntu* users when there is no need for it... you guys could have EASILY used #/bin/dash where YOU need it and notified the community that there was a fundamental change coming in the next release... look out, beware etc. I, for one, am not going to let you people screw me over like this again. You've had your chance to encourage me to use your distro and you've blown it. My remastered distro won't be based on ubuntu as there is no way I would do this kind of thing to my clients and potential users! Another point you made is almost an insult... you say that for the time some of us here have been complaining about this that we could have spent that time interacting with upstream devs to change their ways. WTF! Ubuntu is/was my upstream provider, you folks are the ones that should be doing double duty to interact with various upstream sources to bring about a change that YOU have mandated. Not "us". I'm perfectly happy with /bin/sh -> /bin/bash and have no need for your pedantic POSIXisms. I have business to run and need things to just work. -- Script that are using bash could be broken with the new symlink https://launchpad.net/bugs/61463 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
