Nothing to do for current sid:

# debconf-get-selections | grep dash
# Use dash as the default system shell (/bin/sh)?
dash    dash/sh boolean true

Regarding dash in testing/squeeze:

Checking dash
trying to update dash from 0.5.5.1-2 to 0.5.5.1-2.3 (candidate is 6 days old) 
dash is not yet built on kfreebsd-i386: 0.5.5.1-2.2 vs 0.5.5.1-2.3 (missing 1 
binary: dash)

  -- http://release.debian.org/migration/testing.pl?package=dash

So I'll close this bugreport for now as we've nothing to do in our toolchain. 
If we notice any bugs in any tools/scripts/... we should file separate 
bugreports anyway.

thx && regards,
-mika-

* Frank Terbeck <bts@bts.grml.org> [20090804 12:52]:

> So, now that debian made the switch to dash for non-interactive
> shells, this should be fairly easy to fix, wouldn't it?

Yeah, though I expect failures in some of our tools. ;)
But let's give it a shot for the next devel-release.
I've to check out what's the proper way to enable this in our build
process.

regards,
-mika-

So, now that debian made the switch to dash for non-interactive
shells, this should be fairly easy to fix, wouldn't it?

I'm not really involved with this, but still: At least grml 1.1 was
still using /bin/bash as /bin/sh, is /bin/dash transition still a goal
we are pursuing?

How would we provide an environment, that let's users test /bin/sh as
dash? A special set of grml-live setup files?

Regards, Frank

I'd like to test /bin/dash as /bin/sh for the whole distribution (including all 
our scripts). I suggest to investigate on that after the next stable release.