Re: "dpkg-reconfigure" dash no longer works

[songbird <songbird@anthive.com>]

Greg Wooledge wrote:
...
> Huh.  Well, that's rather important, isn't it?
>
> The package maintainers seem to have forgotten to TELL us this, at least
> in the NEWS.Debian.gz file, which still says only:
>
> unicorn:/usr/share/doc/dash$ zless NEWS.Debian.gz 
> dash (0.5.5.1-2.1) unstable; urgency=low
>
>   * The default system shell (/bin/sh) has been changed to dash for
>     new installations.  When upgrading existing installations, the
>     system shell will not be changed automatically.
>   * One can see what the current default system shell on this machine
>     is by running 'readlink /bin/sh'.
>   * Change it by running 'dpkg-reconfigure dash'. 
>
>  -- Luk Claes <luk@debian.org>  Wed, 22 Jul 2009 17:23:20 +0200

  did you notice the date?  that's some time ago...  which
might be why it wasn't thought of as a change for now.

  i vaguely recall this.


> I've updated the wiki, so at least we have that much warning for users,
> not that many people will read it.


  songbird