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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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