Bug#267142: debian-policy: Sections 10.4 and 6.1 are inconsistent (Posix doesn't say what you think it says)
> common, which is undisputed. The question is not what is common; the
> question is what is required and what is permitted from a Posix
> shell.
Ah, I see. I thought that that was covered with the lists of builtins
in bug#270868.
> Exactly. It's possibly for "defconf" to be that too. This is exactly
> why the current language of the Policy manual fails.
Only if you claim that policy prohibits you from running "debconf".
Otherwise it's irrelevant.
> So the problem here only happens with respect to the extremely broad
> permission from Posix to buildin any or all utilities. This is not a
> mistake in Posix, but it was a mistake for the Debian Policy Manual to
> rely on Posix as it currently does, to be specifying a
> "Posix-compatible shell". Which is why my original bug report says
> "Posix doesn't say what you think it does".
Is there an actual practical problem here?
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