On ma, 2008-02-11 at 09:41 -0800, Mike Bird wrote: > On Mon February 11 2008 09:08:24 Russ Allbery wrote: > > So switch your /bin/sh back to bash when the Release Notes tell you about > > the change and move on with your life. That's why it's configurable. > > Why force millions of Debian users to do this? Furthermore, some will > ignore the release notes or misread them or misunderstand them and data > loss will result.
I think you greatly overestimate the number of people hurt by this. > Why inflict all this pain - all of which will reflect in bad karma for > Debian - when it's so easy for Debian to do the right thing - use > #!/bin/sh.minimal for Debian scripts and not change what users have > come to expect of /bin/sh. Nobody else in the world uses /bin/sh.minimal, so this would mean scripts would have to be changed to work on Debian. That's extra, unnecessary work for package maintainers. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
