sh links point to bash instead of dash

[Heinrich Kruger]

When searching for the sh(1) manpage, I get a to table providing links to two sh manpages for each release, for each release, one of those links points to the bash manual (eg for hardy: http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/hardy/en/man1/sh.1.html) while the other points to an sh.1posix manual which appears to be an extract from the POSIX standard (eg for hardy: http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/hardy/en/man1/sh.1posix.html).

Having the sh.1posix manpage link is fine, but surely the other link should point to the dash manual rather than the bash manual (which I can currently only reach by searching specifically for dash or going to eg. http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/hardy/en/man1/dash.1.html).

[Dustin Kirkland  (kirkland)]

Hi, thanks for the report.

What do you get when you "man sh" on your local system? That's basically what the Ubuntu Manpage Repository shows. This would need to be handled differently in the package providing the manpage you want. It would need to install that to a different location (which I'm not necessarily advocating here).

:-Dustin

[Heinrich Kruger (heindsight-deactivatedaccount)]

No, on my local system "man sh" gives the dash manual, which makes sense since /bin/sh is symlinked to /bin/dash.

Searching the online manpage repository (at http://manpages.ubuntu.com) for sh, returns links to the bash manual and to the sh.1posix manual. I would expect to get links to the dash manual and the sh.1posix manual. In other words, I would expect http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/hardy/en/man1/sh.1.html to point to the dash manual instead of the bash manual.

[David Britton (dpb)]

welp, years have passed, and now, when I search for 'sh', I do get links to dash (and posix-sh). Asserting fixed.