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Re: command -v in postinsts violating policy



Junichi Uekawa wrote:
> > This is a disservice to our users.  If they read Policy, they will be
> > hoodwinked into thinking that they can use a POSIX shell (with echo
> > exception) as /bin/sh.
> 
> Then policy should be updated.
> Policy should document what is current, rather than 
> what is ideal.

Oh come on, just because some fool put command -v in a package that
generates postinst scripts for a few hundred packages without making
sure it was in POSIX is no reason to change policy.

-- 
see shy jo, *cough*, *cough*.


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