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Bug#860545: debootstrap fails to locate xzcat if the default shell is set to posh



On Tue, 2017-04-18 at 14:52 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote:
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> Just tested this - it appears that posh doesn't include "type", which
> is what debootstrap is using to check what's available. I don't
> personally know if "type" is a hard requirement in a posix shell
> here.

It is in the latest POSIX standard (2008) and appears to have been
specified a long time before that (page says 'Issue 2' which means XPG
Issue 2, dating from the 90s).  Perhaps it assumes that 'type' will be
an external program, but that's not compliant because it must be able
to find shell aliases.  I would consider this a serious bug in posh.

Ben.

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