Mike Bird wrote: > On Mon February 11 2008 02:20:26 Cyril Brulebois wrote: >> On 11/02/2008, Mike Bird wrote: >>> 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”. > > Release notes do not offset the millions of person-hours needed to review > and maybe-rewrite and retest the millions of tiny shell scripts that have > been written and tested by millions of Debian users with no thought to the > possible consequences of subsequent changes to /bin/sh. > > Why do you believe it is better for Debian to harm millions of Debian > users rather than simply using #!/bin/sh.minimal within Debian scripts?
Users don't have to upgrade if they don't want to or they could just change bin/sh to bin/bash in their scripts and be done with it. So no need to rewrite or invest time except for a simple script to change bin/sh to bin/bash. Like you said, it's production, so there is no need to upgrade at all... Any decent argument left? Cheers Luk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
