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Re: command -v in postinsts violating policy



On Sat, May 25, 2002 at 07:22:17PM -0400, Clint Adams wrote:
> > the problem is there is no better replacement for 'command -v'.  And we do not
> > really need an exception -- every shell we have supports this.  So the only way
> 
> Well, that's not true.  As Luca has pointed out, /usr/bin/which is
> Essential at the moment.  Also, not every shell in Debian supports
> `command -v', as was pointed out.

If zsh does not attempt to provide /bin/sh, though, this is not a
problem in practice.  Meaning that we don't have to hold up the woody
release over it or anything.  We should still pick a path forward for
woody + 1.

IMO, anyone who uses zsh for /bin/sh is quite insane.  ;-)

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