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Dash

Posted May 27, 2010 6:21 UTC (Thu) by sladen (subscriber, #27402)
Parent article: De-bashing Debian

The change is perhaps less painful than the article implies, most of the work to the Debian packages has been on-going since /bin/sh was switched to Dash in Ubuntu 6.10 (October 2006). LWN also covered the process one year ago in the article "A tale of two shells: bash or dash" (July 2009).

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Dash

Posted May 28, 2010 9:58 UTC (Fri) by joey (subscriber, #328) [Link]

Actually, Debian has been working on removing bashisms since before Ubuntu existed.