On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 14:49 +0300, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > su, 2009-07-26 kello 13:36 +0200, Siggy Brentrup kirjoitti: > > My question is: will it ever happen that I may safely leave > > /bin/sh -> dash > > while running an upgrade without fearing a maintainer script > > fails? > > Been there. Done that. Had no problems.
I'm not sure about it because there were lots of other problems to
solve when I upgraded my SGI Indy r5k that ran a sid from '04, I
dist-upgraded via etch and lenny to now unstable (except for openssh
and postfix). Early in this process I had to point /bin/sh to bash.
> Also, Ubuntu, which mainly uses Debian packages unchanged, uses dash as
> sh since years ago, without significant problems.
Running Ubuntu in one partition of my laptop, I'm aware of that.
> Users may have problems with locally written scripts, or third-party
> scripts, but that's true for any change. It should not stop progress.
That's perfectly clear and doesn't really matter.
Thanks for your reply
Siggy
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