Package: dash
Version: 0.5.4-12
Severity: normal

An example from the austin group mailing-list, that fails with dash:

vin% dash -c 'set -e ; z=$(false;echo foo) ; echo $z'
foo
vin%

ksh93, pdksh, posh and zsh (and bash when run as "sh") all output
nothing.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26.5-20080922 (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=POSIX, LC_CTYPE=en_US.ISO8859-1 (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages dash depends on:
ii  libc6                         2.7-18     GNU C Library: Shared libraries

dash recommends no packages.

dash suggests no packages.

-- debconf information:
  dash/sh: false



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