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Re: Proposed new POSIX sh policy, version two



This one time, at band camp, Jari Aalto said:
> "Depends:" make dependency visible, whereas filing a wishlist is
> usually result of someone by accident finding the script to include
> bashism. He may offer a patch to convert those constructs to standard
> sh-way-of-doing-things.
> 
> It's easier to eyeball packages that explicitly announce "bash".
> Those could be  put to a stress test through:

It's also relatively trivial to just run through the archive, looking
for shell scripts and at least sh -n them from various shells of your
choice.
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