Bug#267594: libc6 depends on bash

[Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>]

On Mon, Aug 30, 2004 at 10:32:53AM +0200, Harald Dunkel wrote:
> I have read libc6.preinst and postinst, but I am not sure what you are
> trying to tell? There are some "$()" inside which could be replaced by
> "``" to support other shells,

$() is supported by all POSIX shells. It's not a bashism. Shells so old
as not to support this are unlikely to work properly for other reasons.

  http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/xcu_chap02.html#tag_02_06_03

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Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]