On Saturday, 26 January 2019 at 17:15, John Reiser wrote:
[...]
> Already bash-5.0 has two official patches in three weeks.  The first one
> fixes a bug in glob filename expansion.  Use of globbing is almost universal,
> but the test cases did not catch the bug before release of bash-5.0.
> Often that is an indication that more bugs should be expected.
> 
> The risk may be large.  *EVERY* Fedora package uses bash.
> rpm .spec file sections such as %build, %install, %clean, %post use /bin/sh,
> and Fedora links /bin/sh -> bash.  That surely is "system-wide".

+1.

Upgrading the default system shell should be treated similarly to
upgrading glibc. A System-Wide Change is definitely in order.

Regards,
Dominik
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