Are you using /bin/sh = /bin/bash or what? AFAIK this has never worked with Maemo.
If your using bash as your user shell (in /etc/passwd) then I *suppose* that it should work, but I haven't tried it. I actually don't need or use bash on the N900. The version I've posted is for those who feel the need to have the latest and/or for those who are actually affected by the shellshock vulnerability (i.e. nobody .

Re. extras-devel. Not me. I once tried to get something there and had to request and account who-knows-where (garage or whatever) and heard nothing ever since. For all I care, the maemo repositories are static and read-only. If I need something that is not there I'll just do it myself and (if I'm nice) post the binary here.

I still don't know if it's a problem of time, money or politics, but something tells me we (if there's a we, a community) should have a repository and a forum and a wiki completely independent of anything we've had in the past. I don't know why we need this "garage" or anything owned/damaged by Nokia or or or.

But anyway, this is off-topic.