Bug#218530: Summary of options for improving conditional rune for initscript calls

[Ian Jackson <ian@davenant.greenend.org.uk>]

Thomas Hood writes ("Bug#218530: Summary of options for improving conditional rune for initscript calls"):
> 3. Change to "if type invoke-rc.d ; then" and change policy to
>    require that /bin/sh point to a shell that supports "type".

Given the complexity of the tasks performed by many maintainer
scripts, it seems to me that this is the best answer.  We should
change policy to require that /bin/sh implements some more
comprehensive standard, eg SUSv3.

Ian.