Re: bashisems in maintainer scripts.

[Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com>]

[Jeroen van Wolffelaar]
> 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?

Yes.  bash have a bug making it useless as /bin/sh when using LDAP and
/usr/ is a separate partition.  See bug #159771 for the details.

/bin/ash do not have this problem, so that is what we use in
debian-edu. :)