On 11/02/2008, Mike Bird wrote: > Debian should ensure that millions of Debian users around the world > who have written and tested millions of tiny shell scripts with no > thought to the possibility that /bin/sh may one day become not-bash > will not suffer millions of hours of down time (or worse - bad data) > due to a Debian change.
If those users are running unstable or testing, that's their job to track such changes. If they are running stable, that's where Release Notes can be used. > On *production* Debian systems, saving 30 seconds in a boot which > may occur once a year for a kernel security update is not worth a > single broken script, nor a single failed backup, nor a single lost > data bit. Since you're talking about *production* systems, “stable” case above, so “not a problem”. Cheers, -- Cyril Brulebois
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