Make /bin/sh configurable with update-alternatives
Bug #71887 reported by
Fridtjof Busse
This bug affects 3 people
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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dash (Ubuntu) |
Expired
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Low
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: dash
The choice to make /bin/dash the shell for /bin/sh causes quite a few problems: The ATI-driver fails to build (#68635), Parallels won't configure and VMware is not that happy either, as they use stuff in their scripts that dash doesn't support. I bet there are quite a few other applications that have problems with this switch (especially as Ubuntu is the inly distro I know that uses dash by default).
If you really want to keep dash as the default-shell, please make it configurable via update-
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For what it's worth, I'm surprised /bin/sh isn't handled by update- alternatives. It's possible to change whether dash is the default via dpkg-reconfigure however.