Package: dash
Version: 0.5.4-12
Severity: normal
Manual page
SH(1) BSD General Commands Manual SH(1)
NAME
sh - command interpreter (shell)
SUGGESTIONS
1. The header seem incorrect, because the 1) package is labelled
"dash" and the 2) executable is labelled "dash" 3) upstream calls it
dash[1], so reading manual is expected to contain:
DASH(1) BSD General Commands Manual DASH(1)
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2. Likewise for the SYNOPSIS and DESCRIPTION: dash
NAME
dash - command interpreter (shell)
DESCRIPTION
dash is the standard command interpreter for the system. The current ver‐
sion of dash is in the process of being changed to conform with the POSIX
...
3. This seems like out of place in Debian:
... We expect POSIX conformance by the time 4.4 BSD is released.
Perhaps it should read:
... Dash was originally developed for the NetBSD.
4. History. The [1] Developer site reads:
DASH is a POSIX-compliant implementation of /bin/sh that aims to be
as small as possible. DASH is a direct descendant of the NetBSD
version of ash (the Almquist SHell). I ported it to Linux in early
1997. It was renamed to DASH in 2002.
This would be a good to mention in the HISTORY section.
[1] http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/dash/
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_DK.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_DK.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages dash depends on:
ii libc6 2.7-13 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
dash recommends no packages.
dash suggests no packages.
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