Comment 19 for bug 61463

May I ask why the default shell was changed to dash in the first place? From what I've seen, there doesn't seem to be any benefits apart from being faster (which IMHO isn't as important as running scripts properly). As I already said, I don't see why dash can't just be an option, and not a default. Yes, it's true that these scripts may be in the wrong - but that still doesn't stop the fact that they work almost every other distro using bash, but not in edgy. Basically, why does dash _have_ to be set as default? I'm not saying to remove it from the repositories altogether, but not to force it upon people when it obviously clashes with numerous scripts.