On Thursday 15 February 2007 11:40 am, Martin Buchholz wrote:
> The suggestion of reconfiguring /bin/sh to point back
> to bash probably works today, but this is not a
> reasonable suggestion for real business customers.
> Rule #1 of using an operating system is
>
> "NEVER change the operating system as supplied"

Actually Rule #1 of Real Business Customers is "Don't expect software to work 
on platforms it doesn't support". Ubuntu 6.10 is pretty clear about what 
software it supports and none of the broken software reported in this thread 
claims to work on Ubuntu 6.10. /bin/sh being linked to dash is just one of 
many reasons that unsupported software could fail to work on Ubuntu. It would 
appear that the Ubuntu devs are content with having some segment of 
unsupported software not working on their distribution for what some consider 
a gratuitous change. Luckily there is no shortage of Linux distributions so 
people who disagree have other options.

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Script that are using bash could be broken with the new symlink
https://launchpad.net/bugs/61463

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