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Re: bashisems in maintainer scripts.



On Tue, 2004-03-02 at 10:32, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote:

> Why not simply use #!/bin/bash (it's essential), nobody is forced to use
> /bin/sh...
> 
> Baf, all problems gone, bashisms are allowed, if it works with bash, it
> works, bash is portable within Debian so problem solved.
> 
> Or did I miss something?

You did - there may be users who do want to install bash, but dash or
sth else instead, for example if they have tight diskspace.

Greetings,
Oliver

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