Why isn't /bin/sh managed with alternatives?

["David Z. Maze" <dmaze@donut.mit.edu>]

At least two packages (ash and bash) provide a program that could
reasonably masquerade as /bin/sh.  Is there a {historical,good} reason 
why this isn't managed with Debian's alternatives mechanism?

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