Re: RFD: Essential packages, /, and /usr

[Clint Adams <schizo@debian.org>]

> As far as I can tell there are two possibilities here:
> 
> 	(a) "it" is pdksh or posh, and it already works at least as well
> 	    as ash on the various #!/bin/sh scripts in Debian, or

It is pdksh.

> 	(b) "it" is pdksh or posh or similar, and it doesn't yet work as
> 	    well as ash on the various #!/bin/sh scripts in Debian, due to
> 	    various POSIX extensions that we use and it doesn't support

It is posh.

> Well, no, it really isn't. If some shell already works better with than
> some other supported shell in practice, then it's supported de facto --
> continuing to support it doesn't require signficant changes to current
> practice, by definition. As such, it doesn't make sense to use that as
> an argument about why we should change current practice.

So now the arbitrary criterion is "breaks on less scripts than ash"?

gnumail won't run if /bin/sh is ash.

The gnumail maintainer should
a) make the script POSIX-compliant
b) make the script a #!/bin/bash script
c) do neither and complain
?


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