Bug#267142: debian-policy: Sections 10.4 and 6.1 are inconsistent (Posix doesn't say what you think it says)

[Bill Allombert <allomber@math.u-bordeaux.fr>]

On Thu, Sep 09, 2004 at 03:01:28PM -0400, Clint Adams wrote:
> > More generally shells that provide built-in with name conflicting 
> > with others basic programms in Debian should not be allowed for /bin/sh.
> > For example a shell with a 'ls' built-in.
> 
> Are you opposed to all shell builtins?

I am opposed to /bin/sh built-in whose name conflicting with programms
provided by Essential packages. /usr/bin/test is such a program, part
of coreutils.

When you explicitly call /bin/bash, you should know what built-in bash
provides and write your scripts accordingly. You would not be able to do
that for /bin/sh scripts.

Cheers,
-- 
Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>

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