Re: Bug#19048: cvs-buildpackage: they should use /bin/sh and not bash

To: srivasta@datasync.com (Manoj Srivastava)
Cc: debian-policy@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Bug#19048: cvs-buildpackage: they should use /bin/sh and not bash
From: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Date: Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:09:09 +1100 (EST)
Message-id: <[🔎] 199803080209.NAA27011@gondor.apana.org.au>
In-reply-to: <[🔎] 87hg5a9c7v.fsf@tiamat.datasync.com> from Manoj Srivastava at "Mar 7, 98 07:56:52 pm"

Manoj Srivastava wrote:
>  /bin/sh, and /bin/sh happens to be an incompatible shell. (ins't rc
>  a POSIX shell too?). I think that is a potential point of failure, as

No rc is not a POSIX shell, look:

herbert@gondor:~$ rc
; alias a=a
parse error

And posix says you must implement aliases.

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