Re: curly brackets a bashism?
Craig Dickson <crdic@yahoo.com> cum veritate scripsit:
> The Debian boot floppies have ash, but not bash, because of size
> concerns, so any package that might need to be installed from that
> environment cannot use bashisms in its installation scripts. It seems
> simpler to just say "no bashisms in package scripts" rather than
> distinguish between those that might need to install when bash is not
> available, and those that can depend on it. It would seem like asking
> for trouble to say "no bashisms in base packages, but other than that
> it's okay" -- people would tend to forget.
Read policy section 11.4., and relax.
It is already documented as "/bin/sh can be any POSIX-compliant shell".
Not /bin/bash, not /bin/ash.
regards,
junichi
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