Re: A problem with bash and a policy solution

Francesco Potorti` writes ("A problem with bash and a policy solution"): ... > I propose that package maintainers are made aware of the problem and > take some action against it. I disagree most strongly. This is a bug in bash, and as such should be fixed there. In the

A problem with bash and a policy solution

Due to bash bug #23857, the installation ofsome packages will fail if `set -a' or `set -o allexport' has been used in the root shell that executes dpkg. I submited many bug reports about this matter to the package maintainers, until Martin Schulze suggested that I bring the issue h