Re: bashisems in maintainer scripts.
[Jeroen van Wolffelaar]
> Why not simply use #!/bin/bash (it's essential), nobody is forced to
> use /bin/sh...
>
> Baf, all problems gone, bashisms are allowed, if it works with bash,
> it works, bash is portable within Debian so problem solved.
>
> Or did I miss something?
Yes. bash have a bug making it useless as /bin/sh when using LDAP and
/usr/ is a separate partition. See bug #159771 for the details.
/bin/ash do not have this problem, so that is what we use in
debian-edu. :)
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