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Re: dash as default /bin/sh and bashisms-free archive RGs



Le mercredi 15 avril 2009 à 02:16 -0700, Russ Allbery a écrit :
> > Actually it would be better to specify that scripts must work with both
> > sh implementations available in Debian, being bash and dash, rather than
> > making nothing more than a fork of the POSIX spec.
> 
> The advantage of the current Policy approach is that we have some hope of
> introducing a new /bin/sh down the road, and we don't require that
> packages comply with bugs in dash that should be fixed in dash.

Policy documents practice. When that new /bin/sh exists, you can change
the policy to require packages to comply with this new implementation.
It doesn’t change anything from the maintainers’ point of view, but it
avoids a useless work of formalization.

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