On Fri, 2006-11-17 at 18:08 +0200, Jari Aalto wrote: > Thomas Bushnell BSG <tb@becket.net> writes: > > > On Wed, 2006-11-15 at 16:28 -0700, Bruce Sass wrote: > > At that point, I suggested and still suggest that we change Policy to > > restrict /bin/sh to a specific set of shells, rather than just any > > "Posix-compatible shell". > > I think this could be solved with wording like: > > ...must work with any POSIX compliant shell. The reference shell in > Debian is /bin/dash, which can be used to test the maintainer > scripts. It is however recommended that the maintainer scripts are > made as general as possible and not restricted to any particular > sh-implementation, not even /bin/dash. Once again, "POSIX compliant" is way too loose. POSIX allows all kinds of crazy wackiness, and we don't want to expect script authors to have to deal with arbitrary wackiness. Thomas
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