Bug#267594: libc6 depends on bash

[Jeff Bailey <jbailey@raspberryginger.com>]

> 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.

While policy currently has bash in the base system, it might not always.
David is involved with alot of embedded work and so far most people have
cheerfully taken his patch.  Being able to go from bash to dash in an
embedded system would save 566.6k.  In most cases moving from requiring
bash to requiring a pure posix shell is just a matter of a couple
cosmetic changes.

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Jeff Bailey <jbailey@raspberryginger.com>