On Apr 22, Justus Pendleton wrote
: Unfortunately, I could find nothing in debian-policy 2.1.3.0 (the
: most recent I found) that says anything about bash being required.
: Of course, it is required...but only because the maintainer gave it
: that priority.
And I think, it's ok. Should we stay on the old V7 /bin/sh, only to
keep _all_ /bin/*sh* users happy?
Just understand bash as YET ANOTHER SCRIPTING LANGUAGE ... like perl,
awk, TCL, ...
: Circumventing the sh link isn't all that bad. I've been doing it for a
: while now and all of the problems that arose were because people used
: bash-isms. In it's current state, trying to completely remove bash from
These bash-isms make at least some programmers live somewhat easier.
Probably it should be suggested/recommended/enforced, that every
bash-ism using script starts with ``#! /bin/bash'' rather then
with ``#! /bin/sh''
Heiko
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