On Mon, Jul 1, 2013 at 12:43 PM, Chris Down wrote:

On 1 July 2013 18:32, Allan McRae wrote:

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On 01/07/13 20:11, Karol Blazewicz wrote:

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I know arch-general si not for reporting bugs and I'm not trying to rush anyone, but it's been already a month of confusion wrt

https://projects.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/commit/trunk?h=packages/zsh&id=c84d9770988fdc0f2e6c7bd5fa748d5a18580fb4

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https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/35724

If a bug is open that long, it is likely to be closed as "Won't Fix".

I think that one reason the bug has been open so long is because it requires consensus to resolve rather than actual bug fixing. Specifically: for binaries involved in situations where the symlink does not make the transition transparent (in this case, because it's the path itself that matters in input), should they (ideally) have:

a. both the old path and /usr/bin be acceptable b. only the old path be acceptable c. only the new path be acceptable

I'm pretty sure nobody would argue in favour of option b preferentially. I am in favour of Arch continuing its long history of being first to deprecate and going for c as long as it doesn't pose any major technical problem.

I agree and I think we should choose to have all our shell paths in the same directory in /etc/shells. Have 2 paths will be painful with chsh as I describe in the bugreport. I can create a TODO to updates required packages when the consensus is reached. I remember Dave, arguing in favor of keeping sheebang to /bin/bash to ensure portability. Cheers, -- Sébastien "Seblu" Luttringer https://www.seblu.net GPG: 0x2072D77A