[TL;DR: Bash developer Chet Ramey claimed in 2015 that this is a
documentation bug. Then, in 2016, a documentation patch has been
proposed to (and possibly accepted by?) Debian.]
On 16 Sep 2016, Chet Ramey released version 4.4 of bash. This inspired
me to check and see if this long standing iss
The attachment "Do not execute /etc/bash.bashrc if --rcfile is set" of
this bug report has been identified as being a patch. The ubuntu-
reviewers team has been subscribed to the bug report so that they can
review the patch. In the event that this is in fact not a patch you can
resolve this situa
This patch fixes the behaviour of --rcfile. It was also reported in
both Debian and upstream. But since Ubuntu is usually much more
responsive, the fix could be patched in Ubuntu until either Debian or
GNU merges.
Also, to speed things up, everyone interested could voice their opinion
in GNU's bu
Debian bug #516152 is from 2009, and #343673 from 2006 ... none of them
are fixed, so I don't think they care.
This is not an irrelevant package we are talking about, its a flaw in
invocation of something critical like bash. Is there any chance this
could be patched ASAP in Ubuntu and then the pat
** Changed in: bash (Debian)
Status: Unknown => New
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bash --rcfile does not behave as documented
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/589496
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** Changed in: bash (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Confirmed
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bash --rcfile does not behave as documented
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Merged the two Debian bugs for you.
** Also affects: bash (Debian) via
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=343673
Importance: Unknown
Status: Unknown
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Yes, I confirmed it. Ubuntu 10.04 bash. when execute "/bin/bash --rcfile
someexistedrcfile", it still read and execute /etc/bash.bashrc and will
not read ~./bashrc
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bash --rcfile does not behave as documented
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here are two "upstream" bugs (debian is upstream, right?)
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=516152
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=343673
note: those two bugs are duplicates of each other, but i was not able to
find out how to mark bugs as duplicate in the debian bu
