Hi Stefano, you must have missed my followup to Manoj.
On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 18:35 +0200, you wrote: > On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 02:04:51PM +0200, Siggy Brentrup wrote: > > > > My question is: will it ever happen that I may safely leave > > > > /bin/sh -> dash > > > Been there. Done that. Had no problems. > > Been there too. Done that too. Had no problems as well. > > 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 > Well, you asked for some feedback and you got some positive. I can > just re-state that positive feedback. I'm writing to you from an > debian/unstable machine which I use daily, and on which I switched to > dash about 6 months ago. Since then I've had not a single problem > ... at the point that when this discussion fired up again I had to > check my /bin/sh to be sure that I actually changed the link back > then. Iirc the problems must have been in pre-etch or etch maintainer scripts and I worked around them by pointing /bin/sh to bash. I guess nobody wants reports from that dist-upgrade. > If your '03/'04 memories are different, then apparently we managed to > fix quite a lot of bugs since then :-) You conviniently didn't cite me not counting removed bashisms :) Style and length of discussions w/o a consensus seem to be still the same. > Please give it another try and report any issue you find. I did so half an hour before you sent your message :) Be assured I'll report any issue I happen to run over. Anyway, many thanks for your confirmation Siggy ps: While I was writing this the Indy is building openssh to check whether -fPIC broke ssh & friends on mips. Same procedure with postfix will follow, 2 packages I had to downgrade for a usable sid. -- Please don't Cc: me when replying, I might not see either copy. bsb-at-psycho-dot-informationsanarchistik-dot-de or: bsb-at-psycho-dot-i21k-dot-de O< ascii ribbon campaign - stop html mail - www.asciiribbon.org
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