Bug#267594: libc6 depends on bash

[GOTO Masanori <gotom@debian.or.jp>]

At Fri, 27 Aug 2004 05:44:30 -0700,
Jeff Bailey wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 27, 2004 at 04:13:08PM +0900, GOTO Masanori wrote:
> 
> > If you have concrete reason to use /bin/bash, please tell us.  It's
> > also good idea to send us the non-bashism shell script.  Otherwise, I
> > prefer to close it.
> 
> I have some of this already from David Weinholdt but I'm waiting until
> after Sarge releases to put it in.  

That's nice.

> Technically policy says that if we're using /bin/sh, we should be
> pure posix, (No XSIisms, even).  However, glibc has existed like
> this for multiple releases, and if this becomes an RC bug, I think
> we should just ask the release managers to ignore it for Sarge.

Yes, indeed.  I don't think it's sarge RC bug.

BTW, even we use /bin/bash, do we have reason to use /bin/sh?  If so,
why?  bash is included in the base system.  We use various tools for
postinst/preinst, because those tools are also in the bootstrapping
base system.

Regards,
-- gotom