Bug#683838: release-notes: transition: pdksh → mksh

2013-04-07 Thread Joost van Baal-Ilić
Hi Vincent, On Mon, Apr 08, 2013 at 09:11:28AM +1000, Vincent McIntyre wrote: > may I suggest a couple of copy-edits to your original: Applied as-is. > On Sat, Apr 06, 2013 at 02:36:20AM +0200, Joost van Baal-Ilić wrote: > > > > I propose this text instead: > > Thanks for your work on the rel

Bug#683838: release-notes: transition: pdksh → mksh

2013-04-07 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Vincent McIntyre dixit: >- pdksh is no longer maintained (it has last seen active >- development in 1999). >+ pdksh is no longer maintained (it has not been >+ actively developed since 1999). sure >- symlink. This compatibility binary behaves a bit more like the >traditiona

Bug#683838: release-notes: transition: pdksh → mksh

2013-04-07 Thread Vincent McIntyre
may I suggest a couple of copy-edits to your original: On Sat, Apr 06, 2013 at 02:36:20AM +0200, Joost van Baal-Ilić wrote: > > I propose this text instead: > > --- > > > Pdksh to mksh transition > > The Public Domain Korn Shell ( role="package">pdksh) > package is being r

Bug#683838: release-notes: transition: pdksh → mksh

2013-04-06 Thread Joost van Baal-Ilić
Hi Thorsten, On Sat, Apr 06, 2013 at 10:48:49AM +, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > Joost van Baal-Ilić dixit: > > >I propose this text instead: > > > >--- > > > > > > Pdksh to mksh transition > ^ > I’d not capitalise here, as it’s a name/“trade”mark. > > If you really must, I gue

Bug#683838: release-notes: transition: pdksh → mksh

2013-04-06 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Joost van Baal-Ilić dixit: >I propose this text instead: > >--- > > > Pdksh to mksh transition ^ I’d not capitalise here, as it’s a name/“trade”mark. If you really must, I guess PDksh would make more sense. > >The Public Domain Korn Shell ( role="package">pdksh) >pac

Bug#683838: release-notes: transition: pdksh → mksh

2013-04-05 Thread Joost van Baal-Ilić
Hi, Thanks a lot Baptiste and tg! On Mon, Apr 01, 2013 at 10:44:03PM +0200, Baptiste wrote: > Control: tags -1 patch > > Hi, > > I used your proposed text to write a patch. I hope I put it in the right > section of > the RN (issues). > > Baptiste > --- svn.debian.org/manuals/release-notes/en

Bug#683838: release-notes: transition: pdksh → mksh

2013-04-05 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Julien Cristau dixit: >If mksh is not a drop-in replacement then I'm not sure it's a good idea >to have it provide a transitional package. Might as well leave the old >pdksh alone so there's no functionality loss... mksh contains an lksh binary which is a drop-in for scripts. The only thing it’s

Bug#683838: release-notes: transition: pdksh → mksh

2013-04-05 Thread Julien Cristau
On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 13:43:15 +, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > Julien Cristau dixit: > > >That sounds appropriate for a pdksh NEWS.Debian file, not the release > >notes? > > I don’t think so – the change should really be done before > the new pdksh package is installed, since it’ll immediately

Bug#683838: release-notes: transition: pdksh → mksh

2013-04-05 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Julien Cristau dixit: >That sounds appropriate for a pdksh NEWS.Debian file, not the release >notes? I don’t think so – the change should really be done before the new pdksh package is installed, since it’ll immediately begin affecting users. >We can add pdksh to the list of packages that are go

Bug#683838: release-notes: transition: pdksh → mksh

2013-04-05 Thread Julien Cristau
On Sat, Aug 4, 2012 at 17:43:47 +, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > Package: release-notes > Severity: normal > > Hi, > > Robert asked me to replace pdksh with its successor mksh > in time for the wheezy release, and we’d like it to be > gone in jessie. Right now, pdksh is a transitional package, >

Bug#683838: release-notes: transition: pdksh → mksh

2013-04-01 Thread Baptiste
Control: tags -1 patch Hi, I used your proposed text to write a patch. I hope I put it in the right section of the RN (issues). Baptiste --- svn.debian.org/manuals/release-notes/en/issues.dbk 2013-04-01 18:45:14.0 +0200 +++ issues-mksh-bj.dbk 2013-04-01 19:12:05.0 +0200 @@ -186,

Bug#683838: release-notes: transition: pdksh → mksh

2012-08-04 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Package: release-notes Severity: normal Hi, Robert asked me to replace pdksh with its successor mksh in time for the wheezy release, and we’d like it to be gone in jessie. Right now, pdksh is a transitional package, and the upgrade might need some sysadmin and/or user effort: ① The sysadmin need