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From: Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr>
Subject: Re: Problems with handicapped 'bash' from glibc package
Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2014 10:14:21 +0100
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To: Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>
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On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 09:33:16PM +0000, Mark H Weaver wrote:
> The patches are bug fixes.  Things like:
> I don't want to run a shell with known bugs.
> I want these fixes on my system.
> 
> What do you think?

I think you should try to gently prod the bash maintainers to prepare a new
release; that would be the reasonable thing. One cannot expect users to
apply 45 patches. I just made a new release of gnu mpc at the request of the
glibc developers, fixing two bugs...

Andreas