Re: what options do we have was Re: POSIX shell\; bash ash pdksh \& /bin/sh
> Our policy only governs Debian scripts. We should also be
> tolerant of non-debian scripts, and they do not come under the
> purview of Debian policy.
>
> We generally try to be nice to our users. We do not
> gratuitously and sudeenly start breaking scripts on their machine. We
> already have a stereotype to combat.
If we are truly aiming for POSIX compliance, then any third-party script
that assumes /bin/sh is bash is as broken as any Debian script which
does so.
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