Re: Problems with handicapped 'bash' from glibc package

[Ludovic Courtès]

Andreas Enge <address@hidden> skribis:

> On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 05:39:35PM +0000, Mark H Weaver wrote:
>> While we're on the subject of 'bash', should we be applying the patches
>> in http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/bash/bash-4.2-patches/ ?
>
> Is there a chance of convincing the bash people to release bash 4.2.1?
> It seems absurd to off-load the work of applying 45 patches from the last
> three years on the users.

Yeah, that’s annoying.

Basically, these patches are the version control system of Bash
(really!).  So in my view, if the maintainer doesn’t publish a new
version, then it means that users can live without these patches.

I haven’t checked what the current patch set is about, though.

Ludo’.