----- Original Message ----- > From: "Adam Williamson" <adamwill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > To: "Development discussions related to Fedora" <devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Sent: Monday, January 28, 2019 11:38:58 PM > Subject: Re: F30 Self-Contained Change proposal: Bash 5.0 > > It's not the "only" issue, because it was submitted over two weeks > *after* the deadline for system-wide changes. > > I am somewhat concerned about dropping in a major new bash version > quite late in the cycle and just before the mass rebuild, particularly > when there are bits like this in the announcement: > > "There are a number of changes to the > expansion of $@ and $* in various contexts where word splitting is not > performed to conform to a Posix standard interpretation, and additional > changes to resolve corner cases for Posix conformance." (are you *sure* > all our corner cases are expecting Posix-conformant behaviour? I'm not) > > "The `globasciiranges' shell option > is now enabled by default; it can be set to off by default at > configuration time." (OK, so we can turn it off again if necessary, but > still, could be interesting) > > "There are a few incompatible changes between bash-4.4 and bash-5.0" > (sure, these are in 'rarely used' things, but we have an awful *lot* of > shell scripts in us. We're a Linux distribution, it comes with the > territory. I'm pretty sure we use those 'rarely used' thing at least > somewhere) > > that *plus* the required readline version bump *plus* the suggestion > that some significant bugs were already discovered in the .0 release > makes me a little hesitant about this. I'm not saying "no!", but...it > certainly strikes me as a potentially disruptive change that needs some > kind of justification to go in late beyond "NEW SHINY". I agree that it would be much safer to target it for Fedora 31. I have no objection if we change target release. > -- > Adam Williamson > Fedora QA Community Monkey > IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | identi.ca: adamwfedora > http://www.happyassassin.net > _______________________________________________ > devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > -- -- Siteshwar Vashisht _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
