On Sat, Jan 26, 2019 at 12:05 PM Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski
<dominik(a)greysector.net> wrote:
On Saturday, 26 January 2019 at 17:15, John Reiser wrote:
[...]
> Already bash-5.0 has two official patches in three weeks. The first one
> fixes a bug in glob filename expansion. Use of globbing is almost universal,
> but the test cases did not catch the bug before release of bash-5.0.
> Often that is an indication that more bugs should be expected.
>
> The risk may be large. *EVERY* Fedora package uses bash.
> rpm .spec file sections such as %build, %install, %clean, %post use /bin/sh,
> and Fedora links /bin/sh -> bash. That surely is "system-wide".
+1.
Upgrading the default system shell should be treated similarly to
upgrading glibc. A System-Wide Change is definitely in order.
Regards,
Dominik
It's also only been released for barely 2 weeks, it's marked as a
major revision number, and it seems a bit late to accept for Fedora
30. Mark it as a candidate for Fedora 31, and move on?