Re: bash should not be essential

[James Troup <J.J.Troup@comp.brad.ac.uk>]

Santiago Vila Doncel <sanvila@unex.es> writes:

> > > So if we have to admit bashisms in debian/rules, we are in fact
> > > saying "Debian packages will always be for Debian/Linux
> > > distributions".
> > 
> > No, we are saying that you need bash on any Debian system.
> 
> No, we are saying "If you want to port a single Debian package to
> some system, you have to Debianize the system first".

How on earth does requiring bash even remotely resemble "Debianizing
the system"?

> This is nonsense.

You took the words right out of my mouth.

-- 
James